Playing by the rules

Disciplining pre teens is hard!

Episode #1

Miss T loves junk food and I have a 24×7 job to limit the quantities. Recently, I discovered that she is walking into the kitchen and scooping out spoonful of jam many times during the day. My health antennas went up. Too much sugar and preservatives. Not at all acceptable! I forbade her from eating the extra jam.

No more eating spoonful of jam. The only jam you will eat is the one that is on the bread! I made my instruction very clear.

A few days later, I saw her again with extra jam on her slice of bread.

“Well, you said I could only have jam with bread. So, I took 2 spoons of extra jam and put it on the bread!“

Episode #2

Miss T was making a habit of spending 30 minutes in the toilet. When I interrogated, I found out that she was always taking a story book inside and reading it there (side effects of adopting the western loo system!).

“You are not allowed to take story books with you to the toilet Tunmun”, ordered I.

A few days later I noticed that she was still spending insane amounts of time in the toilet.

“What are you doing inside Tunmun?”

“Reading.”

“Didn’t I instruct you to not take books with you when you go to the toilet?”

“I did not take it inside. I had left the book in the bathroom after you dished out the order.”

Hmmph! I need better ideas to handle Miss T!