Why don't they just listen?!?!?!?!

Kids have the most impressive case of selective memory I've ever seen. I can tell the klingon until I'm blue in the face to NOT use his loader and garbage truck to scoop up dog food and carry it around the house. He can tell me until he's blue in the fact that he hates time out. Yet I still catch him in the corner, with his digger, scooping up dog food and putting it in his dump truck to carry off. So off to timeout he goes, screaming and flailing his arms everywhere, "But I don't WANNA go to time out!"

Then there's the endless jumping on the bed, off the couch, off the table, and generic fit-throwing. "No, I don't want dinner, I WANT MY MILK!" But two seconds later, "But I don't WANNA go to time out!" It seems so simple to me. Why doesn't it to all the kids of the world?

Then there was the morning where he got sent to time out 3 times in an hour, and I made a comment about how he was going to spend the entire day in the corner if he kept this up. So now every time he whimpers over to the corner, he says, "But I'm not gonna stay here all night mommy!" And, of course, "I stopped crying mommy, can I come out now?"

I've spent the last week and a half of my time off from work listening to my son pitifully say he misses his friends at school every day. "I want to go to school, I miss my friends." So today I tell him, guess where you're going tomorrow? The reaction was not what I expected. "No, I don't wanna go to school! I want to stay home with you, you don't have to go back to work!" How the heck did he change 10 days of whining in an hour? I feel sorry for my husband, who has to take him in tomorrow!

Today's obscure TV request - a show about ladybugs. Noggin and Miss Spider to the rescue!