Not Unlike Having Hard Drugs in the House
All the Halloween candy is causing some new behavior problems. Like sneaking around. Lying. Total denial in the face of an accusation. The kind of behavior you expect from, I don't know, AN ADDICT?
On Friday, I told her she could not have any more candy before school, and mere minutes later, I found her closing the pantry drawer. She spun around with her hands in the air and this look of forced innocence. When asked WHAT she was doing, she said, "Nothing," which was not easy given that she had two pieces of candy in her mouth. I made her spit them out, then said, "You disobeyed me, so now you're going to get a what?" She wailed, "A CONSEQUENCE." Her consequence: no more candy for the rest of the day. She flailed around the house telling me she did not love me or like me and I was not her friend. Which I am not.
On Friday, I told her she could not have any more candy before school, and mere minutes later, I found her closing the pantry drawer. She spun around with her hands in the air and this look of forced innocence. When asked WHAT she was doing, she said, "Nothing," which was not easy given that she had two pieces of candy in her mouth. I made her spit them out, then said, "You disobeyed me, so now you're going to get a what?" She wailed, "A CONSEQUENCE." Her consequence: no more candy for the rest of the day. She flailed around the house telling me she did not love me or like me and I was not her friend. Which I am not.
5 Comments:
I am ROFLMAO. Ahhhhhhhhhh, the joys of parenthood. :-)
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Sometimes, you gotta be the heavy. Good job, bad cop.
ha ha. i used to say that to my analyst. . . and funny thing, She's not my friend either.
I want to be Lu's friend!!! In Dallas Lu can have all the cady she wants!!! Come see us!!!
Oh, yes ... in a household where there was little to no sugar, I was aware of where all the sugar was in each of my friends' houses within a square block. Candy from all seasons in a giant bowl on the bottom shelf of the Cmereks' pantry, Kool-Aid and Honeycomb cereal at the Prewetts', gumdrops and lemon drops on the coffee table at the Dunagans' ... and the list goes on. Halloween was a little crazy at our house as my mom didn't even try to reel us in, she let us gorge on it. I think she figured the quicker we ate it ... well, the quicker we ate it and she didn't have to "police" it.
You're in for a long road of sugar sneaking! We sugar bandits get smoother though, pretty soon you won't even notice the can of sweetened condensed milk missing from the pantry.
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