What do you do when your mom takes away your most cherished source of entertainment??? Apparently you tell her how her husband prefers another woman, even if you know it’s a lie. At least that’s what my five year old son thinks.
The other day he got in trouble so I took away his video games for the day. He proceeded to tell me how nobody likes me anymore – not even dad. When I asked him why he thought that, I saw him thinking hard about what his answer would be. He answered with “well, the other day dad said “oooooo….that girl is pretty”” I know that in most cases if a husband said something like that in front of his wife, he would probably get smacked. In my case, however, I am very comfortable in my marriage and know that Jake is madly in love with me. Because of that, I have no problem with him telling me that he thinks a certain girl is cute (and vice versa). In fact, it’s nice to know what type of look he likes. So, I tell Jacob “that’s ok that dad thinks another girl is pretty. Mom isn’t the only pretty girl on this planet”. I could see that he was disappointed that his plan hadn’t worked, and suddenly I could see that his expression changed from disappointment to “hey, I got a bright idea!”. So he follows up with, “well, mom, he said that he wanted to marry her.” I wondered how this plan was supposed to lead to his getting his video game back, but nevertheless, I knew he was lying and called him out on it. He eventually admitted to the marrying part being a lie, but I couldn’t help thinking about why he would tell such a devious little lie. Was he trying to turn me against Jake so that way I would forget about him being in trouble??? That seems like pretty advanced conniving for a 5 year old, don’t you think?
The other day he got in trouble so I took away his video games for the day. He proceeded to tell me how nobody likes me anymore – not even dad. When I asked him why he thought that, I saw him thinking hard about what his answer would be. He answered with “well, the other day dad said “oooooo….that girl is pretty”” I know that in most cases if a husband said something like that in front of his wife, he would probably get smacked. In my case, however, I am very comfortable in my marriage and know that Jake is madly in love with me. Because of that, I have no problem with him telling me that he thinks a certain girl is cute (and vice versa). In fact, it’s nice to know what type of look he likes. So, I tell Jacob “that’s ok that dad thinks another girl is pretty. Mom isn’t the only pretty girl on this planet”. I could see that he was disappointed that his plan hadn’t worked, and suddenly I could see that his expression changed from disappointment to “hey, I got a bright idea!”. So he follows up with, “well, mom, he said that he wanted to marry her.” I wondered how this plan was supposed to lead to his getting his video game back, but nevertheless, I knew he was lying and called him out on it. He eventually admitted to the marrying part being a lie, but I couldn’t help thinking about why he would tell such a devious little lie. Was he trying to turn me against Jake so that way I would forget about him being in trouble??? That seems like pretty advanced conniving for a 5 year old, don’t you think?
This is too funny!
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