@lastone03 “And kids can read body language. They are very perceptive - they know what pleases or displeases a parent.”
Or think they can. I had to chuckle at this comment. This past fall when my DD18 was in the midst of college visits/applications (and not always acting like her usual rational self), she claimed that I obviously didn’t like one of her choices because when one of the many mass mailings from it arrived I placed it on the kitchen counter instead of handing it directly to her, as she says I had done with other colleges’ mass mailings. The truth was, I liked the college just fine–I just happened to have a bunch of things on my hands, or she was across the room, or I just didn’t realize that placing college mail directly into her hands was a thing…