Dakota's misbehavior regularly results in adorable little things like orange peelings being put between his sheets, having to watch camp musicals with Girl's Team, having to give a round of foot rubs and, recently, being forced to attend the Angelina Ballerina ballet in London!
The other day Dakota made the mistake of being too teenagery on the very day I was supposed to purchase him a new binder for his business studies class. Bad move. I came home from the store with a cheeky grin and a bright pink stripey binder.
With NO other option, off he went next morning with what was basically a big pink kick-me target under one arm. As he left I congratulated myself for thinking up such a clever, cute and character building scheme. It was bound to be the punishment that kept on punishing - especially at an ALL BOYS school!When he got home I could hardly contain my delight as I asked him about his day. But there was no sign of emotional scarring, no tail between his legs. In fact, he didn't even seem to get what I was driving at. I had to ask specifically about the binder. But everyone was FINE with it! What the...?! Apparently, the only comments he got were:
1)"That's cool!"
2)"Where'd you get that? I want one!"
Curses! Foiled! I forgot to factor in the inherent coolness of counter-culturalism. Guess the joke's on me.
5 comments:
Funny! Taj and Brody are both very anti-pink at an early age. I'm afraid that if I tried that same thing, Taj would have hidden somewhere and refused to go to school at all!
yeah, I guessed the outcome of this one before I read it. The formula is :
cool kid + nerdy item = cool item!
Very funny. Ah yes, another case of pre-meditated parenting gone awry. I was fool hearty enough to teach my kids not to care what others think, boy did that go wrong! They don't even succumb to parental peer-pressure anymore! YIKES!
Love it!
Niiiiiice! That would be my luck. I'll have to pick your brain for punishments for Tilly!
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