Whether we realize it or not

Children Will Listen
- Stephen Sondheim

Careful the things you say
Children will listen
Careful the things you do
Children will see
and learn.
Children may not obey,
but children will listen.
Children will look to you
for which way to turn
Co learn what to be.
Careful before you say
'Listen to me.'
Children will listen.

Careful the wish you make,
Wishes are children.
Careful the path they take -
Wishes come true,
not free.
Careful the spell you cast
Not just on children.
Sometimes the spell may last
Past what you can see
And turn against you . . .

Careful the tale you tell,
That is the spell.
Children will listen.


Teaching With Fire, Intrator, Sam M. & Scribner, Megan, Ed.