Why do we have good and bad kids though?

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Another story of my life yesterday.

I had a drama with a 2 year old and it's making me wonder why some children and inherently different. It couldn't be by training if they're that young.

But my story first.

I lost a bracelet that was given to me by an old time friend. I searched the entire house for it but I couldn't find out. I was out from morning till later in the afternoon and I returned home not knowing how the bracelet vanished from my wrist.

So was my mind playing tricks with me?

How could I not know when I lost the bracelet? I didn't remember taking it off, or did I really take it off?

I found my answer shortly after pondering over this.

I went to a church because I was invited over by a friend to join in on an indoor crusade. They had a children's department and I'm pretty fond of kids so, silly me, mingling with them, getting them candies they weren't supposed to be having and carrying them around.

I remember a little girl called Cassandra pointed right at my wrist when I asked her what did she want me to get her. Every other kid wanted the candies, she wanted my bracelet. It was kind of awkward because I liked that bracelet and I was not ready to let that go.

So I deviced a plan to let her wear it while I'm carrying her and when I'm ready to leave, I'll take it.

Rookie mistake.

You don't give kids exactly what they want and think you're going to take it back as easily as you gave it. The kid math doesn't work that way and they don't see reasoning and ownership the way we adults do.

I had a sort of back and forth with the kid, but don't worry, it was in a gentle polite way. And I finally took it from her.

Did I wear it back? No, no I didn't not. Another rookie mistake.

I shoved it in my purse and left it there, right next to the little girl. She's 3 years old but kind of grown for her age to be wanting bracelet and not sweet candies.

I came home thinking I didn't forget anything. On my way back, my mind basically tricked me to think the bracelet was still on my wrist.

You wouldn't believe if I told you I spent almost an hour looking for it everywhere besides my purse. I even thought of going back to the place the next day.

Then I remembered, I had a whole drama with little Cassandra. So I checked my purse with confidence, assuming that I placed it in there which I did.

Close but no cigar

I found absolutely nothing. So I panicked just a little bit. I called my friend and she asked one of the Ushers whether a gold bracelet was there.

The response was positive news. Apparently Cassandra did me dirty and took the bracelet right when I took my attention away from my purse.

She had it the whole time and the mother saw that this bracelet she's wearing is not hers, so the mother gave it to the ushers to keep it for whoever would call looking for it.

Thank God she's a good woman, otherwise my favourite bracelet would have been lost for good. Now I'll be waiting for my friend to bring it back to me since the church is not too far away from her home.

I'll just assume Cassandra is a little girl who doesn't know right from wrong, so let's not call her bad at all, she obviously didn't know what she was doing.

But my question to all Steemians is, are kids good or bad by nature or only by training. Why did she want something different from the rest? Maybe she sees value differently. Maybe she's had too many candies already before I met her.

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