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Today on my drive into work, I was thinking that most 3 year olds don't get sarcasm, and I need to rein mine in now that my son has reached an age where he takes me seriously. It was all well and fine when he was a newborn to tell him that I was taking him back to the hospital to trade him in for a baby that didn't cry so much, and that he was still under warranty so they would take him back, no questions asked. He didn't care when I said that. It was okay when he was 1 and I told him that I was going to sell him on eBay with no minimum bid and no reserve, especially if he kept biting his classmates in daycare. Then, he didn't know what "sell" or "eBay" meant. Now that he is 3 going on 4, he understands a lot more. Worse, he trusts me enough to believe what I tell him. In a decade or so, I will lose all credibility: Then, I will be "stupid" and "not understand anything" because "things are different now than when I was his age." For now, however, I am all knowing and omnipotent and I need to use these powers responsibly.
( Toddlers in Indentured Servitude )
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Today on my drive into work, I was thinking that most 3 year olds don't get sarcasm, and I need to rein mine in now that my son has reached an age where he takes me seriously. It was all well and fine when he was a newborn to tell him that I was taking him back to the hospital to trade him in for a baby that didn't cry so much, and that he was still under warranty so they would take him back, no questions asked. He didn't care when I said that. It was okay when he was 1 and I told him that I was going to sell him on eBay with no minimum bid and no reserve, especially if he kept biting his classmates in daycare. Then, he didn't know what "sell" or "eBay" meant. Now that he is 3 going on 4, he understands a lot more. Worse, he trusts me enough to believe what I tell him. In a decade or so, I will lose all credibility: Then, I will be "stupid" and "not understand anything" because "things are different now than when I was his age." For now, however, I am all knowing and omnipotent and I need to use these powers responsibly.
( Toddlers in Indentured Servitude )
