Mamasan is working tonight so it’s me tucking in the grandboy:<\/p>\n
“Ummm gwumpa I’m thirsty.”<\/p>\n
“OK. You are thirsty.” (See comment below)<\/p>\n
“May I have some water, gwumpa? You get it for me? That would be great.”<\/p>\n
I see a future of middle management ahead of this kid…<\/p>\n
We’re in the process of acknowledging his needs but making him explicitly ask for assistance instead of hinting around.\u00a0<\/span><\/span> Mamasan is working tonight so it’s me tucking in the grandboy: “Ummm gwumpa I’m thirsty.” “OK. You are thirsty.”…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p62ahB-w","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":413,"url":"https:\/\/www.monkeyinfinitum.com\/gwumpastories\/2015\/05\/03\/too-early-in-the-morning-for-behaviour-analysis\/","url_meta":{"origin":32,"position":0},"title":"Too early in the morning for behaviour analysis","author":"Gwumpa Stories","date":"May 3, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The grandboy's taken the 'why\" question out into psychology realm now. 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Clears up future misunderstandings and will probably help him get that raise or bonus when he’s out in the working world.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>
If you don’t ask, you don’t get…!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"