Saying Yes

My friend, Jennifer, had a great post on her blog about "saying yes" to her little boy when he wanted to "help" wash dishes. How, yeah, initially it seemed inconvenient to say yes, but in doing so it really wasn't and he had fun and learned a lot.

Well, this is how we said yes to McCance. But in our case it was out of desperation. The other options weren't working. He didn't want to go to bed. He's great at coming up with excuses to keep from staying in bed--or going in the first place. So instead of fighting, we told him he could sit in the red chair while we did what we needed to do around the house. And the end result?

Tah-dah! Yes. He was carried off to his bed shortly thereafter.