PLEASE, MOMMY! PLEASE?
Friday, September 30th, 2011From Friday Mom – Jaime:
How many times a day do you hear “Please”? Perhaps maybe you’re hearing the “gimme” or “I want” or even “now” variations? But still, how many times does your kid ask you for something?
Sometimes saying no is easy. Like when they ask you for a puppy. Or when they ask for ice cream sundaes for dinner.
But other times it’s a lot harder. Like tonight I was finally going to squeeze in a workout and take Andrew. He likes hanging out with my trainer. My trainer loves him. It works for us. Most of the time. As I was about 3 minutes away from the gym, Andrew says, “Mommy. Please can we play baseball? We can go to Nick’s next time. PLEASE MOMMY?”
Okay. I can’t refuse the kid baseball. Even though it had been pouring earlier and the ground was all wet…
The other thing Andrew is pushing for lately is to do karate. They have an instructor come into daycare and, for a few extra bucks, the kids can learn karate. He has been begging us to do it.
I have to admit that I’m more than a little apprehensive about this one. I’ve seen my kid rough house with all the other boys. The last thing in the world I want is to have him doing karate chops to some poor kid’s neck.
So the jury’s still out on this one. What do you think? Is 3 too young for karate?
Have a great weekend everyone. (AND GO YANKEES!)