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Love it! I think we have all been there.

I just keep telling myself that creativity and problem solving are great skills he will need later in life!

 

 

I learned early on to be very specific with my kids.  When my older son was a toddler we had a happy meal one day. He had one thing in his mouth and wanted another.  I told him "finish what's in your mouth and you can have a fry" (I think it was a fry). He promptly spit out what was in his mouth and waited for his fry!  Since then I tell him "chew and swallow what is in your mouth, then you can have _____".  Kids can be stinkers My daughter would do exactly the same thing!   The other day, I told her she could only watch an hour of TV.   She wanted to watch both a movie and House later that evening.   So pitch a fit and turned on her movie.   A little while later, she came into and said she turned off her movie after 20 minutes and was getting ready to watch House.   When I mentioned her hour limit, she told me she could still watch House because the show is only 40 minutes long and she doesn't watch all the commercials.  She had a point.   I think all these guys will make great lawyers some day.

Oh yeah,  it doesn't go away when they are older either.   My husband is notorious for piling things in the garage in places I cleared out.   A few months back,  I decided to put duct tape on the garage floor and wrote on it - DON'T COVER all over it.  It runs the length of our garage bay except for one spot where I ran out of tape.   Guess what he did.  He piles stuff in that one spot.   No wonder my daughter likes to push the limits.
   Mother tells daughter to throw down the towells to laundry room.
"Which ones?" daughter replies.
"All of them" mother says.
Next thing we know, a huge stack of clean folded towells comes flying down the stairs!

Gotta love it!!
Perfect example.  Mine do the same type things.

LOL well you can't say he didn't listen to you. My son is the same way. I tell him to not let me catch him doing something again and he does still does it, just doesn't let "me" catch him do it. I never said anything about mom, his grand-parents or anyone else.

Morning scene:

Anticipating a juice trail throughout the house, I say to DS (age 10) this morning:

"You should NOT walk around while you're drinking that orange juice."

Next thing I know, he's not walking around with the juice anymore....

Now he's riding his scooter and drinking juice!

Great solution, kiddo.

Boy, you have to be *specific* with these kids!!