outsmarting your kid, outwitting yourself.
It's all about the steam.
Ya see, Max likes watching Thomas the Tank Engine movies. So, to get him to occasionally not watch, we say that the steam engines need to "get more steam" so we can turn it off.
We should have realized that Max would buy into this a little too fully.
Every morning it's been "Daddy Daddy! Thomas the Tank Engine has more steam!"
Basically, "Play the movie, Daddy..." And he's right. Since he said it first, we can't really say "no he doesn't have more steam" or now we're in an argument with a 2-year old.
Huh.
Luckily, things are better now that he likes watching Dora the Explorer. We've changed our tune and learned our lesson.
No, Max, Dora needs to rest so she can have more adventures.
Posted by BilFish at September 23, 2004 06:04 AM