Yesterday, as I was making dinner Chase was begging for a snack. I kept telling him no, until he burst into one of his whiny, fake crying fits. I told him that crying would not get him what he was wanting; crying would just make him get sent to his room until dinner was ready. With that, he covered his eyes with his hands and went running out of the room (fake crying still) and exclaimed, "I guess I'm not your boy anymore!"
Then, at dinner we were having trouble (as usual) with him staying in his seat. We kept telling him he needed to sit down on his bottom and eat like everyone else at the table. Again with the hands covering the eyes, he whined, "I guess I'm just a failure."
Well I quickly told him that he wasn't a failure that he just needed to sit down to eat. "That's how big boys do it." Then I asked him where he even heard the word failure; it's definitely not something we tell our children. He said that is what Mr. Krabs said...thanks a lot Spongebob. Hopefully we can get that word out of his vocabulary soon! Failure and can't are two words this mommy doesn't want her children using.
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