Like Jim Gaffigan says, in his hilarious book "Dad is Fat" which I highly recommend, putting kids to bed turns into a reverse hostage situation. "I'll give you anything you want if you'll just stay in your bed!" My kids are definitely masters of needing extra hugs, water, snacks, going potty, forgot to ask what we have tomorrow......
Anyway, tonight as I left the room, Jo says, "I'm hungry" and I said, "no you're not. we just finished dinner." Jo, "but mom, that was gross food." Mom, "well, it's your choice not to eat it, you'll be fine until morning." Fast forward ten minutes to when she opens up her door and yells, "mom are you just going to let me die?"
(see previous post for how my children misunderstand what it means to be starving.)
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