Laura Albrecht wrote to Reader’s Digest about her three-year-old daughter. She said that, after moving to the country, she and her daughter were often alone in their house. Because they lived in a rural area with no close neighbors, Laura wanted to make sure her daughter would be able to call 911 in the event that something happened to her mother. After instructing her daughter on what to do, she decided to test her. “OK,” she asked her small daughter, “what would you do if you found me on the floor and you couldn’t wake me up?” Laura says she could see her daughter’s little brain working.

To her surprise her daughter finally said, “I would go into the kitchen and eat anything I want.”