Karyn does a lot of things to remind us she is two years
old, but her command of the English language makes my head spin sometimes.
A normal little girl with a collection of toy ponies, if she
should find them missing will shout at the suspected sibling, ”Give me back my
ponies!”
A smart little girl will shout, “Did you take my ponies!”
However, today two year old Karyn confronted Colin with,
“Did you destroy my ponies! DID YOU DESTROY MY PONIES!!!”
Her ponies are fine. They just got left in her “clubhouse”
in the kitchen.
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One of my goals as parent is to
teach my children to calmly debate an issue if they disagree with me and use
persuasion to try and change my mind. I seldom change my mind once a decision
is made, but Colin may have won a point in his favor today.
Lately he has been asking me for a horse. I always say, “No”,
but he persists. I was starting to lose patience with the badgering for a horse
and said, “When I have more money than sense, I’ll get you a horse”. Colin
thinks quietly for a moment then enthusiastically says, “We need lots of
money”.
Now who can argue with that?
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