You tell your 7.5-year-old that she may not walk around outside in only socks. She acts as if she doesn't even hear you. (For added challenge, picture her friend and some neighbors watching and listening to you both.)
Choose an answer. You:
Yes, she has shoes on. But just look how sinister this sock shot is! |
A. Are a terrible, failure of a parent. Your child has zero respect for you. Maybe it's because of the dysfunctional family and your single parenting. She is learning that it's okay to display practically sociopathic tendencies. Is this normal for a second grader? She will be dressing like Rihanna by third grade, moving out and smoking crack by middle school.
B. Realize she is just testing her boundaries. As a 1-year-old she willfully tossed her peas off the high chair, as a 7-year-old she's wearing socks in the gravel. It's frustrating but normal and practically inevitable.
C. Need to chill out. It's just socks.
D. Must learn to accept that she is simply a bad seed.
I'm eager to hear your take, lovely readers! Here's to an A+!
Yours,
Lady MacBeff