E: Mom, I wish I was a person.
J: A person?
E: Yeah, like you.
J: You mean an adult?
E: Yes, I wish I would grow up, right now.
J: Why would you want that?
E: So that I can buy all the toys that I want and so I can just drive to Target and go shopping for lots of toys.
J: Well, you have to make money to do that.
E: Can you help me make money? How do we make it?
J: I mean, you will have to have a job, and go to work like Daddy does, that will give you money.
E: Or I can just ask for lots of toys for my birthday.
2 hours later (at Target)
E: Asking for a different item on every aisle.
J: Saying NO a hundred times over.
E: But mom, I will be your friend if you buy me this.
J: You need to be my friend regardless.
E: I am not your friend.
Yikes. I'm trying to remember how old I was when my parents started giving us an allowance for doing chores. I think it's time.
Ah, welcome. I've got the three olders who literally can't walk into a store with anything with things for sale - be it lawnmowers, dirt, or toys, without insisting they need it all and that I'm the worst mom on the planet for not given it to them.
ReplyDeleteI can't count the times I've been "the worst mom ever". Let them work out that frustration by washing walls for a quarter.
washing walls for a quarter... hahahah. make him read books ;)
ReplyDeletevery cute. I say give him lots of "fun" chores like that!
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ReplyDeleteHa ha! That's funny. I think my sister said her son started being obsessed with money and buying things at that age too. I can't wait! Trent told me he wouldn't be my friend the other day when Jenna got hurt. She was crying and he said, "Mom, I am not your friend because Jenna is sad."
ReplyDeleteHow did I get the blame for her bumping her head on his table? Whatever!!
We will work him so hard that he will call Aunt Marcia to be rescued! JK. I have extra change in the jar. . . I believe he does excel in cognitive thoughts though
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