Reasoning with a preschooler I hard! They don't have the comprehension of adults, and what they do understand they hardly ever remember. This has lead me to a series of statements I either never thought I'd say or I hoped I could avoid.
"Don't hang on the handle for the fridge door, the whole thing will fall on you." I'm sure that's one of my lesser parenting moments, but tellin her the handle would fall off and she'd land on her bum didn't work, and "stop it" was ineffective.
"Because that's jut how life is" Yup, I've said it and I'll say it again. It's my way of getting around "because I said so" (which I've also said, but I hate to admit it). It usually stops the argument because its an extreme, but when it doesn't work there's really no way out.
"Do you want to end up at the hospital tonight?" This one I worry about the most when I heart self say it. I don't want her to be scared of hospitals, so I try to stick with "you'll get an owie", but sometimes it just doesn't work.
"If you are smarter then me stop asking me things". This one is the rudest, but somedays I'm tired of being told I'm wrong, and now she's even started telling me she's smarter then I am, so frustration occasionally takes over... It's funny when she agrees, but she's always asking things a few minutes later.
"Just go to sleep!" Usually said as quietly and calmly as possible, but it seems all the days stories can only be told after bedtime, even though we spent all day together and I asked all about her day at supper. I think it's the only time she sits still long enough to remember anything happened.
Do you have anything entertaining you tell your kids? I'd love to hear them :)
"Don't hang on the handle for the fridge door, the whole thing will fall on you." I'm sure that's one of my lesser parenting moments, but tellin her the handle would fall off and she'd land on her bum didn't work, and "stop it" was ineffective.
"Because that's jut how life is" Yup, I've said it and I'll say it again. It's my way of getting around "because I said so" (which I've also said, but I hate to admit it). It usually stops the argument because its an extreme, but when it doesn't work there's really no way out.
"Do you want to end up at the hospital tonight?" This one I worry about the most when I heart self say it. I don't want her to be scared of hospitals, so I try to stick with "you'll get an owie", but sometimes it just doesn't work.
"If you are smarter then me stop asking me things". This one is the rudest, but somedays I'm tired of being told I'm wrong, and now she's even started telling me she's smarter then I am, so frustration occasionally takes over... It's funny when she agrees, but she's always asking things a few minutes later.
"Just go to sleep!" Usually said as quietly and calmly as possible, but it seems all the days stories can only be told after bedtime, even though we spent all day together and I asked all about her day at supper. I think it's the only time she sits still long enough to remember anything happened.
Do you have anything entertaining you tell your kids? I'd love to hear them :)