A Hiya Power

(I am talking to a colleague, who works with a different group in the nursery, about behaviour.)

Me: “… so if any child in our room says ‘hiya’ we always have to be suspicious. It usually means they’re up to something!”

(At this point, I turn around. A plastic table in one corner of the room has been turned upside down, and there is a child standing in the middle of it.)

Child: “Hiya!”