My preschooler son can skip Persuasive Arguments 101 and go straight to teaching the course. He’s not even 3 years old yet but he’s already developed the ability to read people and situations and use that information to his advantage. Divine or diabolical? As yet undecided.
Grandpa B is currently visiting and when he visits he always brings donuts every morning. Curses! I do so love the buttermilk ones and I can’t seem to decline (but I only eat 1/2). So, yesterday morning, as we were finishing up our breakfast in preparation for Donut Time with Grandpa, I’m trying to negotiate with Muffin to eat the rest of his Kashi Go Lean Crunch cereal so he can then have part of a donut. The negotiation is not going well because, of course, Grandpa and Daddy are not being very stealth with the donuts and Muffin has spotted them. So, I tell Muffin that he must eat 3 more bites of his Kashi before he can have a donut and as I am saying this I scoop up a spoonful of cereal to hand to him. Muffin looks at the cereal and then back at me and with all the seriousness he can muster, says to me, “Oh, no Mommy. That’s a choking hazard”.
Grandpa thought this was quite delightful and I have to admit it was a really good attempt to recognize Mommy’s fear and exploit it. Mommy still won the round though.
Absolutely hilarious!!