Monday, June 8, 2015

How to Argue With a Pre-School-Aged Child (And Lose) #36

P=Parent
C=Child

C: Did you take (the dog) to work with you today? 
P: Yes. 
C: Oh. I took (the dog) to work with me today too.  
P: Work or school?
C: To work. 
P: How? 
C: I just did. 
P: I didn't know you had a job.
C: Yeah, I do!
P: Where do you work?
C: In the Centenary room.
P: In the Sensamary room?
C: No, in the Cente-Nary room!
P: What is that?
C: Well, they have really high ceilings and they have airplanes that go down and up into the ceiling and then when I leave they come back down!
P: What do you do there?
C: Sleep.
P: You get to take a nap while you work?
C: Yeah.
P: That's a cool job if you can take a nap while you're working!
C: Why?
P: Because. It just is!
C: And they have cars there too and they have bathtubs and showers. 
P: Why are there baths and showers? 
C: Because I take a bath there and I take a shower there!
P: While you're working you go to take a bath and take a shower and a nap?
C: Mmm-hmm! I have a bed there too.
P: You have a bed there?  How'd you get a bed there?
C: I brought it there!
P: I didn't know you could bring a bed into a place!
C: Well, it was a really tiny bed.
P: Oh.
C: I have a bigger bed now. 
P: How'd you get the bigger bed? 
C: From a store you've never been to but I have. 
P: What store is that? 
C: It's at the end of the street. 
P: It's at the end of our street? 
C: No, it's at the end of Burlington Street!
P: Oh. 
C: All the way at the end and around the corner and around the next corner. 
P: I'll have to check it out. 
C: Why? 
P: Because I've never been there before. And you have. And it sounds like a cool place if you got a big bed there!
C: Yeah. 
P: You have a pretty cool job. 
C: Yeah. 

How to Argue With a Pre-School-Aged Child (And Lose) #35

P=Parent
C=Child

C: Will you go outside with me?
P: What are we gonna do outside?
C: Um. We're gonna enjoy the view.
P: All right!
C: (in the backyard) Look at that view!

(How can you argue with that!?)

How to Argue With a Pre-School-Aged Child (And Lose) #34

P=Parent
C=Child

C: I like expensive things!
P: I didn't know that about you.
C: I do! Especially excessively overpriced expensive things!
P: Oh yeah?!