Innocent Honesty

My three-and-a-half-year-old son and I were lying on the floor today with a poster-size board book containing maps of the world. On each page was a key describing what certain pictures placed on the map meant. A picture of a potato meant potatoes were grown in that area, a picture of steel beams meant steel was produced there and so forth. At first my son looked for all the rockets of the world using this key. Then he looked for all the grain elevators and then the oil rigs. At first he asked excitingly, "Where is it? Where is the oil?" Then he found it. " There it is!", he said while pointing to Iraq. He then searched for other things and went to looking for the oil again later. He honed into Iraq immediately. He found the oil! When I later asked him where the oil was, he pointed to Iraq. So simple is the truth.