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I was grocery shopping the other day with my three year old nephew when all of a sudden his “evil streak” came out to play.  We had just passed a trolley with a girl of about two in it,  she was pointing to my nephew giggling.  He then covered his eyes with his hands, thus hiding from her.  The little girls smile turned to a frown and she called out “no”.  Well my nephew could tell she didn’t like this so he called back “yes” then raised his face to watch her reaction only to bury his face again in his hands.  The girl called out again “no” to which my nephew replied  “yes”.  The little girl then started jumping up and down in the trolley and yelled out “NO” to which my nephew calmly and quietly replied “yes”. This antagonistic behavior certainly comes from his mother, funny how children inherit both positive and negative characteristics. Perhaps I’m wrong, perhaps antagonism is a learned behaviour? Either way it was time to pick my dried fruit, move on to the next isle and hope our trolley’s didn’t cross again.

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