Difficult Morning
Bear with me as I record the following story for posterity. After Jonah bath this morning we had 45 minutes to get the front room picked up before Ms. Patty arrived. I gave Jonah the task of putting his "special sticks" back in the bucket. (these sticks were a gift from Mr. Bob's most recent wood project) There were 100 or more of these stick laying on the floor in a pretty neat pile... would have been a cinch to pick up. I walked away and came back a few minutes later to find Jonah was distracted with something else. I got his attention and directly instructed him to clean up his sticks then walked across the room to observe whether he would follow through. After a few minutes he did not. This time I started picking up the stick and told Jonah that we could pick them up together. Jonah said, "No, Mommy do it!" I patiently (by some miracle) explained that if Mommy did it all then that ment he wasn't taking care of his toys and he d...