Sometimes we forget just what little sponges our children are. Often I see behaviour that I know could only come from modelling me…and that is scary! I trained my second boy to scream before thinking, and to whine before asking! He was born only 17 months after our the first son. Every time he cried I would come running to see what the first born was doing to him! Typically it was counting eyes, one eye (poke), two eye (poke) etc. He was probably three and talking before I realised how I had conditioned him…I scream, momma runs! This is why I don’t own a cat.