4
Mar
Kid Lawyering
Topic: Hawaii 2005
There’s a certain tactic kids engage in to evade parental instructions or discipline - I call it kid lawyering. They’ll use the letter of your instructions to avoid their spirit. A good example was a small boy I overheard a couple weeks ago when Kai and I were out sledding. His mother admonished him for the umpteenth time to stop throwing snowballs at his sister. Now, the shape of the snowballs the kid was throwing was not not really round, so his response was “they’re not snow balls mommy.”
I bring this up because Kai did this at the hula show. During the show he was running around in circles and making a nuisance of himself. I told him to stop running around in circles, because he was bothering the folks around us. His response? “They’re not circles daddy, they’re octagons.”
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