Where do they learn these things?

“Don’t tell me what to do, Rowan!” the baby said firmly to her older sister.

What?! Where did she learn that? And how to use it and when to say it? What in the world?

I didn’t even know what to say to her. I didn’t hear what Rowan said or did to her. So the only thing I could say was, “Baby, please talk nicely to your sister.”

“Mommy, she said the same thing to me,” Jory piped in.

Uh, okay. “Baby, talk nice to your brother. How does God want you to treat people?”

“Nice,” she answered.

“Jesus said, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ And what does that mean? That you treat others as you would want others to treat you, right?”

“Yes,” she replied.

“Okay, then let’s do that.”