I must say, when Mary Ella started kindergarten I was not prepared. She came home saying things that would make me cringe. They weren't horrible things like foul language...just things you know likely came from a child with an older sibling and yes, I'm well aware our two younger ones will probably be "those" kids as well. Anyways, most of those things were easily extinguished using the "inappropriate" lecture and so on. Well, in first grade we continue to learn to read, write, math and other "fun" (enter sarcasm here) sayings/words that must be extinguished. So on to the story....it was a beautiful afternoon and the kids were all outside playing. My mother was outside with them. I had asked Mary Ella to come inside and the conversation went something like this:
Me: Mary Ella, it is time to come inside and clean up for dinner
Mary Ella: Noooooooo
Me: Mary Ella, it is time. Now come on and let's go clean up.
Mary Ella: Noooooooo
Me: Now Mary Ella, you've got two choices...come inside and get ready for dinner or stay out here and get in trouble
Mary Ella: No mom, YOU'VE got two choices. You let me stay out here OR I can give you a wedgie and I KNOOOOOW what a wedgie is.
Me: (Insert a grandmother in tears laughing so hard she can hardly stand it...thanks mom, glad it is humorous) Mary Ella! (trying extremely hard not to laugh at the fact that my mother just witnessed this showdown) Get inside now.
Fortunately, Mary Ella came to her senses and got inside. Good grief! Do they really have to know what a wedgie is at six years-old. Geez! I guess there are worse things.....
2 comments:
You'll have to forgive my giggles. It's always SO much funnier when it's someone ELSE's child. Seriously, that's one to save for the baby book. You know, after you get done grounding her. :)
That's awful(ly funny). I'm sure that one will keep you smiling for a while.
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