Guess which of the following D got time out for today:
1. Pushing the laptop onto the floor
2. Flooding the bathroom floor
3. Stealing a third dessert
4. Cutting up Adi's school folders
5. Painting the bookshelf's fingernails
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The correct answer is 1 & 5.
Don't get me wrong - she did all of those things. It's just that we have to push the red lines on punishable offenses pretty far back with her, or she'd spend a lot more time alone in her bedroom.
In her defense, she only pushed the laptop because she wanted to clean the table (helping!), it wasn't really "flooding" so much as "overenthusiastic showering," it can't really be called stealing when you're 2 and the dessert is within reach, in fact that's probably a form of entrapment, she was trying to improve the folder by giving it a nice fringe, and the bookshelf had been looking sad today and a nice new coat of nail polish will improve anyone's mood.
In my defense, I did take the dessert away. You have to have some lines.
1. Pushing the laptop onto the floor
2. Flooding the bathroom floor
3. Stealing a third dessert
4. Cutting up Adi's school folders
5. Painting the bookshelf's fingernails
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The correct answer is 1 & 5.
Don't get me wrong - she did all of those things. It's just that we have to push the red lines on punishable offenses pretty far back with her, or she'd spend a lot more time alone in her bedroom.
In her defense, she only pushed the laptop because she wanted to clean the table (helping!), it wasn't really "flooding" so much as "overenthusiastic showering," it can't really be called stealing when you're 2 and the dessert is within reach, in fact that's probably a form of entrapment, she was trying to improve the folder by giving it a nice fringe, and the bookshelf had been looking sad today and a nice new coat of nail polish will improve anyone's mood.
In my defense, I did take the dessert away. You have to have some lines.
Broken laptop again?
ReplyDeleteThe laptop was fine. Thanks to the girls, who saved it by wisely spilling all the too-small baby clothes I'd packed up for storage onto the floor an hour or so earlier.
ReplyDeleteAh hah, an excellent reason to keep the floor covered. When social services visits, you explain it's the poor man's laptop protection plan.
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