Appreciating a child's "little cleverness" is essentially about appreciating their growth and making this growth process more harmonious and free. In a parents' club, a young mother shared a troubling issue: her two-and-a-half-year-old daughter had learned to be "a little clever." For example, when it was time to sleep, the child would come up with various excuses to stay up and spend more time with her mom, such as needing to use the bathroom or wanting to tidy up toys... Faced with her daughter's "little cleverness," the mother didn't know what to do. She was worried that "exposing the scheme" might make the child feel "embarrassed," but at the same time, she feared that if she did nothing, the child might become "sly and dishonest." The mother asked, "Should I tell her not to be so 'little clever'?"