One of my students, who is 5 years old, recently injured himself.  While he was playing he cut his finger...his middle finger.  I don't know what it is with kids, but that's always the finger that seems to get injured.  With four fingers and a thumb, you would think that the middle finger would be involved in just 20% of all finger/thumb accidents, but this isn't the case.  In all my years in early childhood education, the middle finger seems like it is 3 to 4 times more likely to be injured.  

     Well, this boy decided to show everyone his injury.  It's almost like he was injured in battle and wanted to show everyone what happened.  He would walk up to them, hand held out, and finger fully extended as he recounted the story of his accident.  The funny part is that he truly had no idea that raising your middle finger was bad.  I do think he felt good about all the attention his injury received, he just didn't know the real reason why everyone was so surprised.