Number One Son proved the accuracy of a commercial I remember from some years' back. Or perhaps it was a print advertisement. It showed the parents of a young child fighting or using rather blue language in any case, and had a tag line "sensitive recording devices" to describe how children pick up things adults say. This was certainly true in our household recently...I asked the Authoress to pass me something while I was holding The Baby. To be clear about it, I said something along the lines of "pass me the blanket, leave the pacifier". The reply was "that sounded like The Godfather, 'Leave the gun, take the canoli'". Smiling, I say, "It was meant to." Number One Son was playing nearby.
At dinner that evening, Number One Son hears one of us say at the table, "would you please take this to the kitchen?". And he blurts out, "Leave the gun, take the canoli". We thought it was rather amusing, but it does rather make the point about kids taking in everything that is said in their presence.
"Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it." Proverbs 22.6. I want my kids to know all the great movie lines, but when is the right time to teach them these?
On a separate note, guys seem to know this line while many women don't. This morning, some women in a Bible study were ignorant of it, but did know line: "Go to the mattresses", not from The Godfather itself, but from the romantic comedy You've Got Mail.
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