They're allowed to break their own stuff if that's the way they wish to enjoy it; but not mine.
That's a good rule, and it made me smile!
It's easy to forget, when your kid is old enough to be told to walk down to the drugstore and buy her sick parents some cold medicine, how very difficult and exhausting those early years are.
I found theatrical and improbable threats strangely cheering at the time, and the kidlet probably remembers being told that if she didn't stop making meaningless noises and setting my teeth on edge, I was going to paint her purple and put green polka dots on the bottoms of her feet.
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Date: 12/17/14 12:41 am (UTC)That's a good rule, and it made me smile!
It's easy to forget, when your kid is old enough to be told to walk down to the drugstore and buy her sick parents some cold medicine, how very difficult and exhausting those early years are.
I found theatrical and improbable threats strangely cheering at the time, and the kidlet probably remembers being told that if she didn't stop making meaningless noises and setting my teeth on edge, I was going to paint her purple and put green polka dots on the bottoms of her feet.