After days of challenging behavior from our son during our vacation, we jokingly (in desperation?) told Grafton that we were simply going to have to swap him in for another, better-behaved boy from another family.
The next day he explained that our plan simply wouldn't work. He reasoned no other parents would agree to the trade if they knew that they would be getting a boy with worse behavior than their current child.
Foiled again!
Grafton pointed out that along with King and Queen size beds, there is also a Knight size bed.
Grafton is increasingly trying to spend time using Mom's old smartphone, which now he all but assumed is his. We probably had something to do with encouraging that sense of ownership. Hmm, probably a bad parenting move. Although we've mostly only allowed it for educational games. But now we've slipped (more than?) a few times, and let him play Angry Birds. And now I think we went down a slippery slope from which there is no return. At least we can use smartphone privileges as an incentive to achieve other desired behaviors. But that's probably an even more slippery slope that we as parents should avoid! Oh, what have we done.
One interesting thing that happend with the smartphone: After using the phone to take photo that came out too dark, he realized that he could use flashlight app to take a photo with more light. Bright idea!
