Brandonisms

[ellyssian]

Me: Why are you picking on your sister?
Mr. B: 'Cause I like picking on my sister, and she's my sister, got it daddy? Am I clear yet? I'm serious! Got it?

Comments

[slamlander.livejournal.com]

Not quite the thing to be amused about, non?

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

At this point, yes, quite amusing. If there were real, actual picking-on involved, then it would become less amusing. If anything, whatever event caused this - which had his older sister laughing as she walked by, before I made the above comment and he responded - the least amusing thing is the toddler's experimentation with who is in charge, and that's something we are working on with him.

[slamlander.livejournal.com]

Heh, in that case, I was missing the context, sorry.

On that note, my daughter may be coming out to our wedding. She's 27 now.

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

No problem - context gets missed a lot online, especially when there's no back-story.

Part of Mr. B's entertainment value comes from him imitating my wife and bossing everyone around. Of course, it's funny only to a point, and it quickly becomes a "no, you're the kid, I'm the adult." His usual response after that is to say something about Deb being in charge of me. =)

hummm

[salegamine.livejournal.com]

Horrible as this may sound, I hope you told him off for this.

I realise it sounds cute, but this type of disrespect to an other person, related or not, should not be encouraged.

Sorry to sound so old fashioned....

Re: hummm

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

No, this was not a telling-off offense. He was close to disrespect for a person in authority - me - but the picking on was not really picking on. And you can check with anyone else who's visited us with kids - Deb and I are tyrants of the old fashioned vein when it comes to most things regarding child raising, at least in comparison with most parents we've come across.

While all three experiment - or have experimented - at the toddler-stage, even then they are mostly well-behaved, and generally by the time they are six or so they are considered acceptable almost-adult-quality company for some of the anti-child folks we know.

Mr. B still has two and a half years before he gets to that point. 10.5 year old Rachel considers the behavior of her classmates - and some teachers and her principal - as childish and annoying, and, because they should know better, at a lower level than where Mr. B is at! =)