Make me

Me: “OK, buckle up so we can go home.”

Little Miss Thing, age 5: “You can’t make me.”

Me: “Pardon me?”

LMT: “You can’t make me do it – if I’m already doing it.”

Me: “I guess that’s true.”

LMT: “I do things on my own.”

Me: “Yes… Yes you do.”

Daddy First

Wonderful Wife: “Kids, we’re all going to bed. Everyone go to the bathroom right now.”

Danger Monkey, age 8: “I don’t have to go yet.”

Little Miss Thing: “I don’t want to.”

WW: “OK, then Daddy will go first.”

Kids, running: “We’ll go now!”

#ParentingWin