My seven-year old had a bit of a throwdown with my wife the other day. I won’t go into specifics, but it ended with him staring her down and declaring “You’re not the boss of me.”<\/p>\n
Well, actually, that’s not quite<\/em> how it ended, but it’s how he would have liked it to end. The actual ending involved him being sent to his room.<\/p>\n Here’s where it gets funny. The next day, the little guy returned to the issue with his momma.<\/p>\n “When I said you weren’t the boss, what I meant was that no one is the boss of me.”<\/p>\n Momma, in a\u00a0move so classic it needn’t be described, didn’t say anything.<\/p>\n “Only I am the boss of me,” my son explained. “I’m in charge of how I feel and what I think.”<\/p>\n From Momma? Still nothing.<\/p>\n “That’s what I was trying<\/em> to say.” He crossed his arms and nodded. Because, of course, he had made his point so definitively.<\/p>\n This was the point at which Momma started to speak. I think you can imagine the rest.<\/p>\n I love the idea that he came back to her to try to spin his losing argument into a Greater Truth. I can’t wait until he tries it with me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We’ve all tried to revisit fights before, to go back and try to explain exactly what we meant when we said what we said. This is what that looks like when a seven-year old does it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[123,122,120,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daddytales-cute","category-daddytales-n","category-daddytales-embarassing","category-daddytales-funny"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6DpYi-n0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}