Feb 16, 2010
It’s all in how you pitch it: The makings of a spin doctor
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Me:
Don’t hit Morrow.
Orison:
He was standing in the tub.
Me:
Still, don’t.
Orison:
I didn’t. I helped him sit down.
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That boy deserves a medal.
What a beautiful, beautiful spin…
10 years later my boy is still defending the argument, “I didn’t kick her! I pushed her with my foot!”
AAAHAHAHAHA You’d better be saving for law school!!!
He could probably be the President.
He has such fascinating logic.
How clever… :D
As a non-parent, I’m wondering how you would even respond to a comment like that…
At a friends house recently their 6 or 7 yr old son was chasing their 2 yr old daughter.
mom: stop chasing your sister
son: i’m not. she was running away from me.
One of my favorites. Cast: Daughter (14), Son (16), Mom (older).
D: (From back seat of car.) Mom, make him stop it!
M: Stop what? What is he doing?
D: He’s trying to look cool!
S: I’m not trying. I AM cool.
There’s no adequate response a mom can offer.
As the mother of six, five of them boys, I can appreciate this. You know the older they get the complex the spin.
Love the logic of kids. They always find the loopholes in your arguments. To add to the examples — My wife, to our 5-year old son after some sort of nonsense: “Carter! Were you born in a barn?” Carter: “Jesus was.”
Ultimately, WE as parents are responsible for the spin our kids use on us. Children learn by example; yours, or others’.
God, “Have you eaten from the tree I commanded you not to eat from?” Adam, “The woman you put her with me-she gave me some fruit from the tree and I ate it.
The “others” from said comment above! Adam, the original spin doctor.
The makings of a lawyer, too.