Blaming Others
The Blame-It-On-Someone-Else Method
One day
when my son Scott was two years old, I heard him crying. I went into his room
and my daughter Hannah, who was four, was there also. A plastic bat was lying on
the floor.
"What
happened to Scott?" I asked.
Hannah
answered, "He hit his head."
"On what?"
She pointed
toward the bat on the floor and said, "The bat."
"Where was
the bat?"
She said,
"In my hand."
We learn
the Blame-It-On-Someone-Else Method at such an early age. (Kent Crockett, The
911 Handbook, Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 2003, 50)