Who's the adult now?: how to change your own perspective

I can't get this out of my mind. A few weeks back my son, who is 4 years old, going on 5 rebuked me in a manner which challenged me and certainly put me in my place. I had left him to play with his baby sister of 22 months and his older sister (6 years), with clear instructions to both of them to make sure baby did not wander off. True to form baby did wander off and on realising this I was quick to admonish him and his big sister for not looking out for their little sister.... YOU need to be more responsible, I shouted.... He looked me straight in the eyes and as if knowing exactly what I knew and what would strike me hardest, said... "You are our dad. We are all YOUR children. You are SUPPOSED to look after ALL of us. We are just children!!". I wish he would stay 4 years old... little knowing how threatened I feel by his menacing intellect and stubborn determination... deadly precision. Of course I claim all this to be what passed through the genes from yours truly... wishing all the while I could be as sharp and swift of mind!

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