No personal responsibility here....

[Phoebe]

Today we were in the video store picking out a movie for a long weekend of DH working. Gotta love the electronic babysitter. I am carrying the my 1.5 year old waiting in line while the older girls were playing in the candy aisle. DD#1 accidently gets some fan-type toy stuck in her hair. DD#2 has to follow suit and purposely get the same toy stuck in her hair but much worse.

Releasing the hair from the toy was a painful experience for my daughter. Tears were shed. When I reprimanded her for her bad choice, DD#2 replied that the "store should have put the candy up higher so I couldn't get it". "Then I wouldn't have been able to touch it."

[HouseofWool]

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Yikes - how old is she? I can't imagine my 5 yo saying something like that!

[alison]

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Yeeeeeeeeeow!

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OH that happened to us too! Was it an airplane with candy inside the stick? Never thought of that happening till DD had a dred and had to cut it out!

[Momo]

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DD#2 replied that the "store should have put the candy up higher so I couldn't get it". "Then I wouldn't have been able to touch it."

our kids must be cut from the same cloth...DS1 and DD1 say things like that!! It's so frustratiing but somewhat amusing, all at the same time

[JaneDoe]

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She will make a great lawyer someday!

[Phoebe]

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[quote="pinkpickles It's so frustratiing but somewhat amusing, all at the same time [/quote]

Exactly. This is not how I have raised her in her 4 years of life! :huh: I am a fan of love and logic parenting, but it isn't sinking in. We are trying harder with the consequences. Such as,

Me: Ella please pick up your clothes off of the floor.

Ella: Just throw them away. (We have a time out box where things go if they aren't picked up or sometimes DH threatens to throw things away)

Me: Okay. (I hid them.)

The next day she wanted her jacket that I "threw away". I didn't threw it away because it will be handed down to her sister in a couple of years, but Ella won't see it again. She threw a fit and couldn't believe I threw it away and it got taken away with the garbage. The next time, I asked her to pick up her shoes. She said, "Throw them away. No, wait". She ran and picked them up.

[Meenah]

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That is funny, Ella is one smart cookie. The next time she tells you to throw it way, make her pick it up and make her throw it into the trash!!! That should get her attention.

[peggyfromwastate]

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I'm the one at the video store who tells my kids to leave the candy alone, but not with much follow thru. I just don't feel the need to be hyper-vigilant if the store designers are going to leave it out there on kid level-- I would have to crouch way down to pick out a ring pop, for instance. So if the kids touch every type of candy bar, oh well.

My advice: If you want to buy candy, don't buy it at the video store because it's been picked up by tons of kids, smashed up, etc., etc. I hate the candy displays.

We also have a rule about not buying toys in a grocery store, not buying candy in a video store, etc., etc. When the kids see some toy at Safeway, I can just say, this is not a toy store. If I want to buy you a toy, I will go to ToysRUs. They accept that. Those are my rules...