That Kid
I'll tell ya, if that kid wasn't so darn cute......
Magician, at the tender age of 3.5, has perfected the art of pushing his brother's buttons. This was this morning's exchange:
The boys were watching some movie and in said movie there was a bike race. Apparently Magician identified with the protagonist of the movie (ok, so they were watching The Goofy Movie, perhaps protagonist is overstating it somewhat). After a particularly exiciting bike race, Magician throws his hands up in the air and proclaims, "I WIN!" Supergerky, competitive to a fault, responds, "It's a movie, no one wins." Well, Gish was insistent that he won and that SG lost. After a prolonged battle of "No you didn't", "Yes I did" (repeat until you feel like your head is going to explode), SG comes to find me so exasperated he has tears in his eyes to tell me of how WRONG Magician is and he keeps saying..... I spent a few minutes calming him down and making him see that it didn't make a dfference what Gish said, that SG knew the truth and that's all there was to it. Why not just let him think that he won. "Because it's NOT FAIR! How come HE gets to win and I have to LOSE!" Clearly this was going nowhere quickly. So I tried a different tactic. I ask SG, "so tell me, what does he get if he wins?" After thinking about it for a second he answers, "nothing. He gets nothing." Right. So what's the big deal? SG processes this bit of information, seems ok with it and runs off to tell his brother, "so what if you win, you don't get anything if you win."
Gish answers, "Yes, I do. (pause) I get a trophy!"
SG in a frustrated huff, "MOMMMMMMMMMMMM!"
What am I gonna do with that kid??
Magician, at the tender age of 3.5, has perfected the art of pushing his brother's buttons. This was this morning's exchange:
The boys were watching some movie and in said movie there was a bike race. Apparently Magician identified with the protagonist of the movie (ok, so they were watching The Goofy Movie, perhaps protagonist is overstating it somewhat). After a particularly exiciting bike race, Magician throws his hands up in the air and proclaims, "I WIN!" Supergerky, competitive to a fault, responds, "It's a movie, no one wins." Well, Gish was insistent that he won and that SG lost. After a prolonged battle of "No you didn't", "Yes I did" (repeat until you feel like your head is going to explode), SG comes to find me so exasperated he has tears in his eyes to tell me of how WRONG Magician is and he keeps saying..... I spent a few minutes calming him down and making him see that it didn't make a dfference what Gish said, that SG knew the truth and that's all there was to it. Why not just let him think that he won. "Because it's NOT FAIR! How come HE gets to win and I have to LOSE!" Clearly this was going nowhere quickly. So I tried a different tactic. I ask SG, "so tell me, what does he get if he wins?" After thinking about it for a second he answers, "nothing. He gets nothing." Right. So what's the big deal? SG processes this bit of information, seems ok with it and runs off to tell his brother, "so what if you win, you don't get anything if you win."
Gish answers, "Yes, I do. (pause) I get a trophy!"
SG in a frustrated huff, "MOMMMMMMMMMMMM!"
What am I gonna do with that kid??
posted by Lain | 3:23 PM
1 Comments:
ROFL.
Sorry, I'm not laughing at you, just in sympathy (or maybe that should be empathy).
Just keep telling yourself that these characteristics are someday going to take him far in life. That's what I do with M. And with her stubbornness, err, I mean drive, she's going to be president of the universe or something.
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