Made my daughter clean up a mess she made in the kitchen while she was eating ice cream.
Went to the park with her; pushed her on the swings; took her to McDonalds and bought her a Happy Meal and an iced tea for myself.
Sounds like a lovely time. Did she get the toy she wanted? That seems to be the most important part of the meal.
Ah, yes. The great cleaning up tragedy. In 3 acts to boot.
They are giving out tiny stuffed animals and she seemed OK with the one she got which was a brown bear.
She complained the whole time she was cleaning up her mess in the kitchen, though.
She has an idea that if she accidentally made the mess, as opposed to deliberately making one, then she shouldn't have to clean it up.
I explained that when grown-ups make messes, even if it's by accident, they clean them up, so she needs to learn since she is growing up.
You're right about the three act tragedy, though. She interspersed comments about the unfairness of having to clean up a mess she accidentally made with comments about my laziness for not cleaning it up for her and asking if she had the mess cleaned up enough yet.
