It’s a fair belief that children have since time immemorial behaved like hot mics — microphones that are left turned on and therefore broadcast what are meant to be private conversations. 

Kids have always picked up talk by their elders and broadcast it, especially to the very person the gossip was about. This is best documented in Dennis the Menace, the boy in the American (not British) cartoon, whose “hot mic” antics have kept people around the world amused since the early 1950s. ..

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