Listening

You'd think our children would learn to listen...

I tell my daughter not to do something, she does it.
She gets hurt, she cries, she comes to me to comfort her.
She does it all over again the next day.

Ahem, when do our children learn to listen to us?
When do they make the connection in their brains that mom or dad
are telling me this because they don't want me to get hurt...not because they don't want me to have fun???

Ever?

But then I think of myself, my adult self...and know the answer.

I'd really hate to be God and have to put up with billions of people doing this.