Azure Jane Lunatic (Azz) 🌺 (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
azurelunatic) wrote2003-06-10 02:30 pm
azurelunatic) wrote2003-06-10 02:30 pm
Choices.
The Little Fayoumis just got a choice.
He managed, in the attempt to be watching a movie, to knock over one of the Playstation controllers, which is never a good idea. I asked him how it happened. He didn't know. I told him that since he had knocked it over, he would not be able to watch a movie right away, but he would be allowed to watch a movie an hour from now, after 3:30
I heard the beginnings of a Big Noisy Fuss. I told him that he had a choice: either he could accept watching a movie later, and watch a movie after 3:30, or he could make a Big Noisy Fuss about it and get grounded from movies today.
He managed, in the attempt to be watching a movie, to knock over one of the Playstation controllers, which is never a good idea. I asked him how it happened. He didn't know. I told him that since he had knocked it over, he would not be able to watch a movie right away, but he would be allowed to watch a movie an hour from now, after 3:30
I heard the beginnings of a Big Noisy Fuss. I told him that he had a choice: either he could accept watching a movie later, and watch a movie after 3:30, or he could make a Big Noisy Fuss about it and get grounded from movies today.
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Believe me, I remember being a kid. And I know him, and I know the difference between when he's fucking around and shit gets knocked over, and when he knows he wasn't being careful enough and stuff gets knocked over. When it's an accident, he gets that "Oh shit I'm sorry" look, and he gets hugged and the situation gets corrected. When it's him being careless, he usually doesn't notice that he just knocked something over, and if he does, he gets the "I'm innocent, really I am" look.
The potential grounding? He's been a royal pain in the ass about accepting penalties he knows are coming to him, and puts up a yelling screaming fuss about it. That is not acceptable.
Out of the three of us adults, he behaves best for me, and accepts the penalties for breaking the rules best when I lay it down for him.
*shrug*
He's a good kid, and I aim to keep him that way, and his grandmother's ass will be *fried* if she *ever* pulls another stunt like the thing she did with him holding the door for his great-aunt when the dog got out.