Kids are really creative. And they can play a foreign language at their fingers. English is nearly not a foreign language to them.

Today on the way home, Dean suggested creating a secret language which no adults could understand but kids could.

It amazed me that he started making the rules for the secret language straight away. His rules were so complicated, involving rhythm, backwards pronunciation and some German words.

I was concentrating on driving but I was not good at thinking in a manner of kids anyway, so I could not understand what exactly his rules were. However, Sophia and Carlotta listened very carefully and interrupted him from time to time, making improvements to the encryption algorithm.

Before we got home, they have finished the rules. As a test, Dean made some sounds like jabber. I was completely out.

Carlotta asked, “Do you mean ‘when go to beach’?”

Dean said, “Yes!”

I was shocked, deeply.