Hank: Will you help me fix this?
Me: Sure. (fidgeting wit toy parts)
Hank: It goes this way.
Me: I think you’re right.
Hank: Mommy?
Me: Yes?
Hank: I really love to be right.
Well, who among us doesn’t like to be right? At least your portrayal of the conversation makes it sound like he was calm and not irrationally insistent “(IT GOES THIS WAY!”), as preschoolers sometimes tend to be, so I think plus 10 points for Hank.
This is all wrong! You must subjugate your child, totalitarian rule for Godsakes! It’s working well in the rest of the world, Egypt, Libya, Iran, hmmm…
I must share a conversation I had with my son, Redding age 4, this afternoon.
Me: Redding you need a rest.
Redding: I got enough sleep.
Me: Your behavior says otherwise.
Redding: I tell you, I got enough sleep, I don’t need a rest.
Me: Well, I guess you’re entitled to your opinion.
Redding: No. No, I’m not!
That kid is pretty kickass.
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Well, who among us doesn’t like to be right? At least your portrayal of the conversation makes it sound like he was calm and not irrationally insistent “(IT GOES THIS WAY!”), as preschoolers sometimes tend to be, so I think plus 10 points for Hank.
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Dude. Me too.
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Brilliant. Just brilliant!
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Haha. Very insightful! But really, don’t we all? 🙂
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Out of the mouths of babes!! LOL!
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Oh, Hankers. Your mama loves to be right, too.
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Just think…if we all began our domestic arguments with that last phrase. I think we could put therapists out of business.
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oooh snap! watch out! (and I do, too. in fact, I am basically 99.9 percent of the time, for sure)
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(that 1% is my obsessive and incorrect use of commas, probably.)
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This is all wrong! You must subjugate your child, totalitarian rule for Godsakes! It’s working well in the rest of the world, Egypt, Libya, Iran, hmmm…
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I must share a conversation I had with my son, Redding age 4, this afternoon.
Me: Redding you need a rest.
Redding: I got enough sleep.
Me: Your behavior says otherwise.
Redding: I tell you, I got enough sleep, I don’t need a rest.
Me: Well, I guess you’re entitled to your opinion.
Redding: No. No, I’m not!
But Redding and I also both love to be right.
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So cute! What a funny little dude.
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Oh, your son is SO cute!
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You know how in relationship counseling they always use the line, “Would you rather be right, or happy?” Well, being right MAKES me happy, so…
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This picture of the two of you is just fantastic.
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Love it – I like to be right too……man is that hard to let other people be right……. he is a cutie!
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Oh, Hank. You are my favourite.
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hahaha! oh man! this kid could have been me at the same age… you’re so in for it when he’s a teen! lol love it!
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