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[metaphortunate]

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[wild_irises]

Now if Katie Roiphe saw that, she'd have an argument about parental rage ...

[metaphortunate]

This evening in despair I finally started saying "I'm not at home to 'why' questions tonight."

[lovepeaceohana]

Hahaha, yuuuuuup. For us right now it's not "why," it's "what if," as in, "I can't go upstairs to get my water? What if there are bad guy zombies who are going to eat me?" that only ever somehow manage to escalate to epic proportions like "Well at my castle I have dragons to protect me from bad guys but what if my dragons get dead in a fire and then I will be sad and I won't be able to shoot the zombies and they will eat my face and WHAT IF THEY EAT MY FACE, WHAT WILL I DOOOOOOOOO?? I can't go get my water."

[khedron]

Hah, yes. We're in the same boat. It's a lot more interesting, but still ends up with, "two more questions and that's it for the night, no more."

(With our daughter, it's important to telegraph things in advance. It makes everything better.)

[kore]

....hahaha that's still me 40 years later, oh dear.

[kate_nepveu]

Oh dear. Very sorry.

Weirdly, our "oh my god stop" moments aren't "why," they are (1) "Guess what?" (which means: SteelyKid would rather talk than eat her dinner) and (2) "I want" (at the top of the Pip's lungs, after he's been denied, until he screams himself out).