Our sweet little dictator has been marching around issuing declarations lately. “I want juice!” “I want cookies!”. Of course, I would prefer he actually asks (“may I have a cookie, please”), but I would be satisfied with “I want a cookie, please”. I keep reminding him to say please, and he does, but it is getting old and I have been giving him some different responses lately. yesterday I tried this one:
Tyler: “I want juice”.
me: no response (I was waiting to see if he would remember to add the please without me prompting him)
Tyler: “I want juice!”
me: “huh, is that so?”
Tyler: (louder) “I Want Juice!”
me: “yes, I heard you want juice. I want to hear you ask politely”
this morning it was this:
Tyler: “I want a cookie!”
me: “yeah, well, I want a son that asks for things politely”
Tyler: “politely…uh..pleeease”