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Rat Vision

Have you ever noticed that children "cannot" see things right in front of them? My husband has coined a term for this, "Rat vision". It has something to do with rats not seeing or bothering trash cans put out after dark or something like that. I'll give you an example, boys cleaning their bedrooms. I will go into the room and detail what it means to clean the bedroom.

- Make your bed
- Put away your clean laundry
- Take your dirty laundry to the laundry room
- Clean off all surfaces (dressers, shelves, window sills)
- Clean up the floor

Simple right? Inevitably, when I go in for inspection, the floor is still littered with dirty socks, empty water bottles, shoes, etc.... especially around the edges of the room. When I point them out, the kids seem genuinely surprised at my disappointment. It is as if they really can't see the stuff till I point it out.

Similarly, questions like "where are my shoes???", "where is the remote??", "I can't find my DS!" are all met with the same solution, mommy using her magic eyeballs to look for them. Like I have some special skill that no one else in the house possesses, vision. Is this a boy thing, or is it just a kid thing?

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