Showing posts with label strategically avoiding timeouts?. Show all posts
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Done cryin' mama

Whenever Henry doesn't get his own way he usually cries. He has perfected this cry so that he can even produce tears on command. Here is a typical scenario:

Marci: "What do you want for dinner? Corn dogs, macaroni and cheese?"
Henry: "Ice cream"
Marci: "No, we need to have dinner first and then we can have ice cream if we eat a good dinner"
Henry (while opening the freezer and reaching for the ice cream): "ICE CREEEEAM!!"
Marci (while struggling to close the freezer): "No ice cream right now"

Then Henry begins to sob for approximately 30 seconds to a minute while I ignore him and wait for him to finish but here is the new (and in my opinion totally adorable and hilarious)part, when he's calmed himself down he walks over to me and says:

"Done cryin' mama"

He learned this one at daycare because when he sees the daughter of his daycare provider put in timeout she is told to let her mom know when she is done crying so that they can talk about what she did etc. He has been watching this and has adapted it to his own needs which frankly works quite well in my opinion. As soon as he tells us he's done we talk to him about why he was crying and move on.