Children are geniuses
by Juliana

I held open the box of crackers for my son, Joseph. He immediately grabbed a huge handful, delight in his eyes. After removing his overflowing hand from the box, he looked down and saw one more cracker on the floor. I immediately thought of the movie Cinderella, where the little mouse Gus painstakingly gathers every last morsel of food, ignorant of the approaching cat.
There was no approaching cat here, but my little Joseph was equally determined to not let one piece of food be left out. With his free hand, he carefully took one cracker from the full hand. Then he reached his full hand down to the floor and picked up the spare cracker. Does it make sense to me? No… I would have used the empty hand to pick up the cracker from the floor. Did it make sense to Joseph? Of course! He knew his hand was already full, so he made space to get the last cracker! What a genius!
On the next round of crackers, he reached in and pulled out a hand that was overflowing. No fewer than five crackers fell to the floor. He looked at them for a moment, then shook his full fist to drop another one there. Then, peacefully, he sat down and started eating!