A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words (Or, Exactly Fifty): Our Children Watch Us, But Don't Need To Know Everything At Once

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Little Nancy knew something was bothering her mother.
She took her little letters and big confetti and left a message that made her mother smile.
“Thanks, Nancy,” her mother said. “That helped!”
Nancy was six.
No one would tell her for years about the industrial accident that doomed her hometown.