I registered Ryan for soccer which starts in March. Ryan is really looking forward to it. When we were talking about it the other night before bed he asked "Mom when I play socc-a can I push the cheat-a boys down?" He still pronounces his -r- as -a- at the end of a word. I told him, "No honey. You're not allowed to use your hands in soccer so you can't push the other boys down. Besides they're not cheating, they're trying to win just like you. If you want to push the other team down you have to play football and you're way too young for football." He seemed satisfied with this.
The next day we were riding in the car and he asked if I'd signed him up for football. I told him no, because as I said the other night he's too little and even if he was big enough I didn't think I could watch him play football. He repiled, "But MOM I'm already bigg-a. I need to play football so I can push the cheat-a boys down!" I could see this was going nowhere so I changed the subject.
This morning he came up to me and said,"Mom, I'm afraid when I play socc-a the cheat-a boys are going to push me down." I finally caved and said, "Sweety, if those cheater boys push you, you push 'em right back." I know that wasn't the right thing to say, but he finally seemed happy about this. Heaven help me if he does decide to play football. All we'll have to tell him is, "See #27. He's a cheater. Take him out." and it's as good as done.
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