this was in a psychology paper i was reading on Vygotsky today

......A child’s selective appropriation of a new idea from a social ex-change can be seen in the following conversation between a mother (P. Miller) and her (then) 4-year-old daughter:

M: What do you think you’d like to be when you grow up?

C: A mommy!

M: That’s nice. . . but if you want you can be a mommy and something else.

C: I just want to be a mommy.

M: You know, I’m a mommy and a teacher—two things. You could do that too.

C: I just want to be a mommy.

(This continues for a while until the child concedes—sort of.)

C: Okay. . - I’ll be a mommy and a bird!

The child appropriated certain meanings from this conversation and ignored other aspects of the mother’s meaning.........

I thought it was kinda funny