rains but it pours! !!!

Okay, this is why parenting is terrifying.

Elodie Glass lays out 85% of interpersonal problems ever:



For the non-image-enabled: basically, if you don't like a thing that someone does, and you have already asked them to stop, and they don't stop, you can either live with it or peace out. You cannot make them stop doing the thing.

Except when you're parenting, you HAVE TO. YOU HAVE TO. All the time! Like, you HAVE to teach them not to shit their pants, and you have to keep them from setting the cat on fire, and so on. You can't just live with them shitting their pants forever, and you can't go away from them. You have to repeat "ask them not to do the thing" like one million times, and then move on to

bribe them with M&Ms? -> Do they still do the thing?
showers -> Do they still do the thing?
time outs -> Do they still do the thing?
loss of privileges -> Do they still do the thing?
cute underwear with Elmo on it -> Do they still do the thing?
long term bribery -> Do they still do the thing?
long explanations -> Do they still do the thing?
????????? -> Do they still do the thing?

CAN'T YOU JUST MAKE THEM NOT DO THE THING? No! You cannot - there is nothing on the chart that leads to "make them stop doing the thing!" And yet WE HAVE TO. We are literally off the chart of human interaction here! strange geometries surround us - losing san points as we speak…

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AND ROCKET HAS A TINY LITTLE POINTY THING IN HIS MOUTH. What even is this week, oh my God!