I have every intention to say this to the mites when occasion calls for it:
Dad: “The cat and I were talking. It wants you to clean your room.”
- taken from Crazy Things Parents Say.
That has to be one of most awesome parenting tips I’d seen. Youngest mite — in spite of his strong will, bossy nature and fiercely (and irritatingly) independent — shows every sign of becoming an animal rights activist. He’s already managed to guilt-trip Will into not wearing a t-shirt of a cartoon dog, clearly dead with a cross as its eye and a tongue hanging out, again because according to the mite, it looked too much like a Sunday Roast.
He gets upset every time Anna shrieks and stamps on a spider or insect. He promptly punched his older brother when he spotted him shoving our cat off a sofa to sit on it. In his mind, animals come before people. Yeah, I really can see him as a vegan, animal rights activist and a pain in our backside when he reaches his teens. (At least it’s better than the idea of him becoming a footballer, which has to be my worst nightmare.)
With that in mind, I can see myself using that line on him and I truly believe it’ll get him to clean up his room. I told Will this on phone this morning and he asked what I’d been on. That man has no foresight.
Is the reason you don’t want him to be a footballer because he might end up with a footballer’s wife?
I think it is a brilliant idea.
And yes steering away from football is good, the players are tossers.
@wendy
That and because I detest football fans (including my husband)!
@Edie
Yay! You’re certainly my comrade.