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Tuesday – Dissecting The Frog
Dec. 14th, 2010 03:27 pm.
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Sweet Pea was sent to the cooling off room for 45 minutes last Friday for trying to dissect a frog. Well, sort of. The frog was actually a child pretending to be a frog, who hopped up to Sweet Pea in their kindergarten class and licked Sweet Pea on the ear. Sweet Pea was holding a pair of scissors at the time, and when this happened he threw them at the frog that was assaulting him
Now, a person with good impulse control might think, “Hmmm. That was uncalled for and unpleasant, but I am not actually hurt. Therefore, while I may voice my irritation at being licked in the ear, it would not be appropriate for me to do this person physical harm.”
A person with moderate impulse control might think, “Yuck! I’m offended, but not mortally wounded. I will put down this cutting implement and punch him, instead.”
Sweet Pea has poor-to-non-existent impulse control, and I guarantee that all he could think was, “AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHRRRRRR!!!!” Which did not bode well for the frog. Filled with rage at the assault of wet tongue on his ear, Sweet Pea threw the scissors that were hand. Since this was in Kindergarten, the scissors were the blunt tipped kind made out of plastic, and “the frog” survived intact.
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Sweet Pea was sent to the cooling off room for 45 minutes last Friday for trying to dissect a frog. Well, sort of. The frog was actually a child pretending to be a frog, who hopped up to Sweet Pea in their kindergarten class and licked Sweet Pea on the ear. Sweet Pea was holding a pair of scissors at the time, and when this happened he threw them at the frog that was assaulting him
Now, a person with good impulse control might think, “Hmmm. That was uncalled for and unpleasant, but I am not actually hurt. Therefore, while I may voice my irritation at being licked in the ear, it would not be appropriate for me to do this person physical harm.”
A person with moderate impulse control might think, “Yuck! I’m offended, but not mortally wounded. I will put down this cutting implement and punch him, instead.”
Sweet Pea has poor-to-non-existent impulse control, and I guarantee that all he could think was, “AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHRRRRRR!!!!” Which did not bode well for the frog. Filled with rage at the assault of wet tongue on his ear, Sweet Pea threw the scissors that were hand. Since this was in Kindergarten, the scissors were the blunt tipped kind made out of plastic, and “the frog” survived intact.
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