There were two colored blocks in front of Annabel yesterday. One blue and one yellow. She was reaching out for one and I asked her "Which one do you want?" and she said "The purple one". Now Annabel knows her colors pretty well. She rarely gets them wrong and this particular block was a rather indigo shade of blue, but blue nevertheless, so I corrected her: "No, that's a blue block. It looks sort of like purple, but thats blue". Here's the interesting thing: She corrected me right back: "No daddy, purple".
What is amazing about this to me is that she clearly understands the idea of what it means to be wrong about something, because she is suggesting that I am wrong about the block color!
It's crazy to me that she has the pluck to be so sure that she is right even when corrected. I mentioned it to Kristin and she said that she had the same thing happen today.
They were in a store and Annabel picked up a stuffed alligator and said "dinosaur". Kristin corrected her: "No honey, that looks like a dinosaur, but actually its called an alligator". And again Annabel said "No mommy, its a dinosaur".
How interesting!
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