Jack's favorite playtime activities include playing: Santa (collecting toys in a bag and redistributing them around the house to different people), picnic (collecting stuffed animals and an assortment of other random things and spreading them out on blankets around the house), and pirate (building a ship and then collecting random treasures and redistributing them around the house.) Do you notice a theme....random toys spread out all over the house. I'm sure all mothers fight this constant battle (and I know it won't end, ever), but my pregnant back cannot bend over and pick up 100 toys everyday. So, rather than teaching him to help me clean up (as we've done forever), I have decided that now I want him to learn to clean-up after himself, without my help. This task takes about 20 times longer than when I "help," but it is something he needs to learn to do. (And, seriously, the back pain is terrible!)
So, tonight as I was trying to get Jack to clean-up after himself, he firmly announced, "You're not my best friend ANY more!" Apparently, if you're interested in the position the primary requirement is letting him watch TV and not making him clean-up his toys. Unfortunately for me, cleaning up after himself is the battle I have decided to fight and TV is the reward for his compliance (which is rare.)
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I'm easy and will let him get away with whatever he wants. If Grumps or Gramps won't take the best friend job, I can be available.
paul
Hey - Nanapops is a package deal and we also have references! Three out of four grandbabies will say we are great best friends (it will be 4 out of 4 as soon as Derek can talk)!
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