I was walking through Meah Shearim the other day with my almost 8 year old daughter. Everyone was selling pictures of Rav Elyashiv (if the Chareidim would wear T-Shirts there could be a huge money making opportunity there – T-Shirts of Gedolim!). So we were speaking about Rav Elyashiv.
Tamar said to me, “He was the biggest tzaddik – right Abba?”
“I suppose so” I replied.
“He was even greater than Moshe Rabbeinu, because Rav Elyashiv just learnt Torah all day long, but Moshe Rabbeinu sinned when he hit the rock!”
She does not go to a Beis Yaakov school, and I am sure that nobody told her such an idea. But if you put two ideas together sometimes you get a different answer than intended.
Be careful what you teach your children – they just might be listening!