OK, once more. My brain is a little spinny tonight but maybe I can get this right. I'll try to dial down the shoot-from-the-lip thing-- it always gets me in trubble.

Dan. This is not about you taking credit for others' good works, or even your own. I get that. But it IS about the really powerful effect your approach to helping people can have. It is a powerful, powerful effect, the way you do what you do for folks. Not just that you DO it but that YOU do it. To that extent, it matters for the sake of the work itself that you understand how powerful that is, because it is going to present you with opportunities to encourage and mold those who see it in action. (I reference one of my recent PMs to you.) That "leadership" is going to be part of what may seem very simple and straightforward to you at this point.

So of COURSE that kid said what you say s/he said. S/he's part of your world, you're part of his/hers, and s/he's had a brush with you in this project. I kinda think ya probably rubbed off on the kid, just a leetle bit. :~)

~S~