Friday, 08 July 2011
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How to manipulate your children
Charlie is starting to understand more and more, and of course he trusts me completely. Which means it's a great time to start manipulating him, before he gets smart enough to not listen to anything I say.
Along those lines, I've been trying to make him into a Yankee's fan. It's not because I'm a Yankee's fan, although I am (mostly because of Matsui of course). It's because I couldn't bear it if Charlie were a Mets or Red Sox fan. Arggh.... so anyway, you see how I am forced (forced!) to manipulate him into liking the same sports teams that I do.
My wife Bee was kind enough to get Charlie a Yankee's jersey and hat, so I've been trying to make him wear it as often as possible.
He's a good sport about it, although he doesn't usually like to wear hats. I trick him into wearing the hat though, by putting his hat on my head and repeating "Mine! Mine!" over and over again. He knows what "mine!" means, and goes insane when I claim that the hat is mine. So then he starts yelling that it's "mine!" back to me, and insists on putting it on right away.
I have to say: I am really enjoying programming the software in my kid's head. After 30 seconds of saying "Mine!" in the morning, he doesn't take the hat off for a good half hour. I will program him regularly, until he doesn't ever take the hat off.
Ah, fatherhood. This is what all good dads do, right? Right???
Charlie sez, he is not amused.
Have a great weekend!!
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Comments (37)
Gosh, he's so adorable. Seriously. ^______^
haha that's wicked. ;) It's ok. I'm going to do it to my child and my nieces and nephews...heck..I'll do it to my friends kids too. ^_^ He's so cute.
You're baby is so cute, and so much more fashionable than me.
Now I want a yankees cap, and I don't even like the yankees all that much.
Nice.
Your son is so adorable.
Wait till he's a teenager. ;)
LOL!!! guilty. My baby girl is a dodger's fan b/c I can't stand if she was to wear ANYTHING east coast, which is what LA, a city of band-wagoners do, every time some other team wins the World Series.
Aaah, fatherhood is such fun. Your future mission will be to cure him of wearing his hat to bed and sleeping in it! :D
charlie looks so korean haha
hes so cute(: ive just recently started blogging:
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LOL! Good job with the manipulation!
Oh my word, what a little cutie!
What a cute little kid.
I love him ;) I hope I have cute kids like Charlie. Lol
all that programming stuff backfires eventually.. i used to tell my kid "you better NOT eat those carrots" now.. he doesnt listen to anything i say :)
That's hilarious.
He is so cute. :)
Whatever works!
Oh my god, so cute!
But I want that bell.
I have a nepphew :)
aw he's getting big :)
Awesome fathering.
= )
He's so cute! We do something similar with Damon ~ we'll tell him "You better not put that on!" and then he does, simply because we told him not to.
Super cute and good luck with the "programming"!!