Never trust my niece with a secret.

So, since my job is a nanny, I spent this past summer taking care of my six year old niece and my ten year old nephew. Both of them are very bright and they are very funny. A few weeks back, our whole family (My mother, my father, my sisters, my brother in law, my niece, my nephew, and I) went on a family vacation together. My mother rents a house every year on a private island off of Cape Cod in Massachusetts and we spend a week there. This year, my brother in law and my sisters had to leave early since they had to be back at work early and since I had an extra spot with my car, we decided to let one of the kids stay. My parents and my sister decided to leave my niece since she was more adventurous then my nephew. She spent the rest of vacation going to the beach with me and going to the floating dock that is attached to my house and look at the crabs that were on the ocean floor below. On the day we went home, we left early in the morning to make the morning ferry and start our two hour journey home.

 Since we left so early, we didn't have time to have breakfast so my mother decided to stop at an Ice cream parlor and get us some Ice cream for breakfast. Now, before my sister and my brother in law left they told my mother not to give my niece any sugary foods. My mother really wanted to get ice cream but she knew my niece can't keep a secret since my brother in law gave her candy one time when she was punished from candy and he told her not to tell my sister and when she came home, she ratted him out. So my niece agreed to keep it a secret and my mother bought ice cream for breakfast. When we got home, my brother in law picked up my niece and drove her home. That night we got a phone call from my sister that went like this. (note: I am not putting my nieces real name on here for her protection, So I am going to call her, Phoebe.)

Mom: Hello
My sister: Hi mom, thanks for taking good care of Phoebe  after we left.
Mom: It was no problem. She was an angel.
My sister: And thank you for feeding her good foods for breakfast.
Mom: No problem, we gave her the pop tarts and fruit snacks that you left her.
My sister: Are you sure you didn't give her anything else?
Mom: THAT SNITCH!

That night, I went to my sisters house and found out through my brother in law that my niece was singing a song about "Having a secret with Grandma." And when my sister asked her about it, she spilled the beans. The next day, I asked my niece why she was singing a song about having a secret and when you have a secret, you don't sing about it to other people or else they are going to want to know about it or else they will want to know. My niece looked at me and said, "I told mommy not to tell anyone!!"

To this day, whenever someone mentions having a secret, my niece's ears perk up and she says. "Secret." And we don't tell her a thing.