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Friday, September 25, 2009

Outsmarted by my 3 year old

I knew this day was coming. I just thought that he would be about 16. Not 3. How could my little 3 year old outsmart me?

After being surprised by my 3 year old a couple times this summer when out in public, I instituted the underwear laws in our household. Underwear has to be worn with shorts and to camp. When school started, the law was amended: underwear needs to be worn at school. Yes, you may go ahead and laugh. Know, though that I too laughed at friends who also had to develop underwear laws. That is until it was my own child!

The other law ruling our house is that if it's under 65 degrees, it's pants not shorts. This is because I got tired of assuring OS's teachers that no, he really wasn't cold. I decided to start the school year out right away with this rule. OS may not generally tell me about his day, but I do have a guarantee that if it's an enforced pants day I will hear about every other kid who got to wear shorts to school that day!

Today the pants police came out and demanded pants be worn. The boys reluctantly obeyed. I was surprised to discover later that YS was not wearing underwear. Don't ask.

Me: You know the rule on underwear. Underwear is mandatory for school and with shorts.
YS: (triumphantly) Not school today. No shorts today. I wear pants.

Hmm...time for that law to be ammended. The Big Giraffe apparently wasn't aware of that law until a few moments ago when I told him about the post and he is now saying that the law should be struck down entirely and replaced with a law stating that underwear needs to be worn at all times. Welcome back from whatever planet you've been on this past summer and good luck on that one, Big Giraffe.

A. Elliot's Lesson Learned: It's a sad day when your 3 year old outsmarts you!

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posted by Alex Elliot @ 3:13 PM   2 comments
2 Comments:

  • At 9/26/2009 12:06 AM, Blogger Heather said…

    I am a fan of underwear. Thank goodness none of my kids have asked to go commando yet!

     

  • At 9/30/2009 9:20 AM, Blogger Magpie said…

    my daughter once - ONCE - wore no underwear to preschool. to this day, i ask her if she's wearing underwear.

     
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