Acting and Parental Manipulation

So, I'm dropping Jake at school today and he's doing is usual best to keep me there as long as possible. Playing shy, telling me he wants nuggles and showing all the teachers his new lunchbox...while sitting in my lap. Miz Kim, a sweet and savvy pre-K teacher, starts to tell me about my son's act yesterday morning. When the kids are doing the attachment thing and not letting their poor overworked, sleep-deprived, guilt-ridden parents leave them at the school, the teachers have a great ploy. They open the front window and make a big production of letting the kids wave goodbye to their parents, who by then have safely retreated to their cars. Well, apparently Jake was doing his best impression of sorrowful...head down, glancing up from under his eyebrows to make sure someone was noticing his sad, sad situation. *chuckles* Jake is a consummate actor at the grand age of 3. So, he sees me finally and gives me big sorrowful waves...and as soon as I leave he's off and running with his buddies. The little stinker was trying to play me like a Stradivarius, lol.