Can I Have Your Attention?

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Not very far in the past, I was in the kitchen getting together a pot of morning espresso when my 3-year-old girl, Isabella, skipped into the room wearing a

pink ballet dancer tutu and pirouetted over the floor. It was early, something close to 6 a.m.

Enchanted by her spunk and satisfaction, I halted what I was doing and offer her hello. I praised her move moves and afterward included

that she should pay special mind to an enormous toy vehicle that her more youthful sister had left on the floor. She appeared to be somewhat—unmindful is the word that comes

to mind—to what I was stating. Rather than recognizing what I’d stated, she revealed to me that she was “hitting the dance floor with her heart.”

I delighted in hearing this. I commended her, again and again, cautioned her about the vehicle. It positively showed up she wasn’t focusing. So I

asked, somewhat concerned, “Isabella, may I please have your consideration?”

She reacted, “Yet Daddy, that is unrealistic.”

All things considered, I thought, she had heard me; clearly she wasn’t unmindful. At that point, the old TV show Kids Say the Darkest Things came to

mind. I chose to direct a little test, and, diverted, asked, “And for what reason wouldn’t you be able to give me your consideration?”

“Since,” she murmured, as though she was giving me access on a major mystery, “my consideration is mine, so Ican’tgive it to any other individual.”

I considered the specialized ramifications of what she had said and thought, well, she may have a point. As an essayist and father, I was unable to help to be

glad for my girl’s verbal abilities. I reviewed the book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. The sentimental piece of me needed to

consider my little girl’s spur of the moment remark about consideration a blessing from the divine beings, a stroke of youth virtuoso that had been given to me on a

silver platter; unintentionally, I was sincerely busy composing a book about how to improve thinking and consideration. Surely a great deal of mainstream society

would, unbeknownst to Isabella, concur with her announcement.