For those of you who don’t know, Gavin is IN LOVE with sticks! Each time we go out for a walk or to the park he manages to get at least two or three back home and stashed away in his toy bin. When it got to the point where we were finding them in ever room of the house, IN our bed, in Gavin’s high chair, stepping on them and hurting our feet, etc. we decided to instigate a new rule: STICKS BELONG OUTSIDE!
Gavin can play with his sticks all he wants outside, but once we get to the front door we ask him to give us his sticks so we can go inside. He’s getting better at this and sometimes it only takes two attempts before he reluctantly hands over his loot of sticks. Other times its not as easy and I’m sure our neighbours have all heard Gavin wailing as we take his sticks away. He’s a sneaky one though, and occasionally he still manages to sneak a stick or two past us.
The other day we faced a bit of a dilemma… For dinner we went out to Panda Express (so yummy)! We were just starting to eat our meal when I noticed the very confused look on Gavin’s face. Any guesses?? Jared and I were eating our Chinese food off of chop STICKS! I’m sure Gavin was thinking what hypocrites we were, or at least wondering where his set of sticks were. We grabbed some chop sticks for him to play with, and hope he won’t remember this next time we tell him to leave his sticks outside!
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The moral dilemmas of parenting! If Gavin loves sticks so much, maybe he'd master chopsticks before a fork. But fingers are still best.
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