Exaggeration, or downright lying, is lost on my perpetually positive daughter
Me: Time to turn off the television.
Kirstin: But I want to watch MORE t.v!
Me: No, you've watched enough t.v.; Time to do something else.
Kirstin: I only want to watch t.v!
Me: Do you know what happens when you watch to much t.v?
Kirstin: What?
Me: Your brain turns to jelly!
Kirstin: Yay, then I could eat it while I watch t.v!
2 comments:
How do you do that? How do you get your kids to take you and themselves so un-seriously? My kids are so earnest, we can't joke with them like that at all or we have to be VERY obvious that we're joking and they sort of get it. Most of the time I have to say, "Oh, daddy, you're so silly..." so they won't burst into tears over the possibility of their brain turning into jelly.
Aah, they never take us seriously! My kids are perpetual goofballs and the sillier we are the more they like it. You're probably a better mother for it... ;)
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