Response to Amal's lead blog

I found it is not that interesting when watching the first part of the video since I did not regard the John as a kid who has not built his own values, but it becomes much more fun when I saw him in the Ellen show. In the first part, all I saw was a child who kept lying to his mom that he did not eat the sprinkles. Although he looks cute, he still should not lie again and again, and he should at least admit he ate it when his mother found evidence. I know that sounds too strict to a child, but I did not realize it when I watch the video. There is a detail veiling the truth that he has not built his moral outlook. Since he can opened his mouth when his mother want him to do so, I felt like he can totally understand what his mother said, therefore, lying should be the intentionally behavior that should be corrected. When thinking about this, he makes me feel like he is not that adorable. However, when I watched his response in the Ellen show, I found out that he answered all the question with "yeah", but he obviously did not understand all the question. Then, I realize he is just a three-year-old child who has a little world for himself, which is called pure and innocent. 

It is hard to find humor if we kept using our adult perspective to interpret his behavior. Lying was not a social acceptable behavior when communicating with others, so it is not easy to get laugh when we treat the little child as a person who have same moral standard with ourselves. He is funny because he is a young kid, who do not know right and wrong and who do not know how serious it will be to become a lier. On the Ellen show, he showed no interest in the conversation of the adults and also did not care the question Ellen asked about his age. In his world, the focus is always candies. We can see his reaction when seeing a mountain of candies showing up and waiting for him. That is the thing he valued in his world, which is simple and pure. That is the most sweet period in every human's life.