Grandboy (Sitting on the floor next to a toy aisle): Hrmph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Me: No.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Grandboy: But I want a RYAN toyyyyyyy<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Me: This is not a discussion we’re having. C’mon, I’ve got the toys I’m getting. Let’s go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Grandboy: I’m not leaving without a RYAN TOY<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Me: Then you aren’t leaving. I am. I’ll be driving down the road heading home and you’ll be sitting on the floor here and eventually we’ll BOTH be in trouble. Is that how you want this day to go? (I walk)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Grandboy (thinking, weighing the options, and knowing I WILL leave him there): Ok.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Me (still walking): …<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Grandboy: I hate my life<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Me: Ah. Ok. (Puts toys on a shelf) Let’s go. (No anger, just a logical response to a bad scenario. I’m teaching him that discipline can be applied without anger.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
—<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Later<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Grandboy: Grandpa, you know when I said I hate my life?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Me: Yep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Grandboy: I know I was just angry and I didn’t mean I hate my life. I was just angry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Me: Then that’s ok to say. Perfectly ok to be angry. What you do with anger, now that makes the difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Grandboy: I should have done something different, huh?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Me: Yep. You’d probably have some stuff now instead of nothing. But you learned something, so that’s not time wasted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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