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.