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Thursday, December 01, 2005

Philip the Negotiator

Philip has a CD player in his bedroom. It's primarily used at bedtime to play him stories on his way to slumberland. For the better part of a year now it's had Garrison Keillor reading The Polar Express.

Tonight Dina decided to take a shot at weaning the boy from it, since he's not going to be able to have it on the cruise.

Dina (cajoling): Phil, let's try it without the CD tonight. [Points out the hows and whys of not having the CD on our trip.]

Phil (very serious): Mom, I'll do what you ask on the trip [we swear we're not making that up], but tonight please let me listen to it.

Now I'm not going to point out that a Hot Wheels on offer might have met with better success, but I will say this is the second time this week he's won due to his verbal acumen. On Monday he got me help him pick up his toys by declaring that our expectation for him to do it on his own was "insane business" (as in "I've had enough of your insane business"). Disciplining a child is very difficult with tears of laughter streaming down your face.

Mikesell

2 Snarky Remarks:

When you pray that your child will have a child just like they were, it's nice to see that prayer is answered... Enjoy!
--dad
Anonymous Anonymous, at 10:26 AM  
Priceless. :)
Have a fun cruise, by the way.
Linda
Blogger lindaruth, at 4:35 PM  

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