Out of the blue, though, over the past few days I've noticed a new kind of politeness coming from her. The conversation went a little like this:
"Angelica, it's bath time. Can you help me pick up your toys so we can do your bath?"
"Um, no thank you."
She's consistent about it too! Take this other examples:
"Angelica, please stop jumping on the couch."
"No thanks."
or
"Can you please stop chasing the cat around and scaring her?"
"No thank you!"
or
"Can you please pick up your dirty clothes and put them in the laundry hamper?"
"Um, no thanks."
She may be disagreeable, but at least now she's polite about it.
3 comments:
Ah yes, the stage when they figure out that saying no in a polite way works better at least part of the time :-) My kids are notorious for this! My son has more ways to say "no" but couch it in the most polite terms possible so that you almost don't realize that it's still "no" -- I think he has a great future as a lawyer :)
Your little girl sounds absolutely adorable! :-)
Marie
bonkersinbarnhart.com
LOL! That's awesome. I do have to give it to her for politely disagreeing. (Course I find this funny b/c I'm not there yet. I'm sure it's not as cute the 600th time you've heard "No, thank you"
Perfect! She is still being self-determined in her choices :) what better way to raise her.
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