Punishment...

My kid who is never bad was bad yesterday. We were all quite clear that she was being bad. In fact we had the following conversation:
 
Me: Eat your food.
Boo: Why?
Me: Because you promised you would.
Boo: So, if I don't then I'm breaking my promise?
Me: Yes.
Boo: And that's bad?
Me: Yes.
Boo: Am I going to get a punishment?
Me: Are you not going to eat?
Boo: Nope.
Me: Then yes.
{silence}
Boo: Like what kind of punishment?
Me: I dunno yet.
Boo: A timeout?
Me: No. I dunno. I don't think it should be a punishment just to punish. I think it should suit the "crime."
Boo: What does that mean?
Me: I mean it should have something to do with food and eating. Like you don't get any snacks before dinner and when you get your dinner you have to sit quietly and eat it, one bite after another for 15 minutes. No playing, no talking to me, no watching a movie.
Boo: {thinking about it} Well, that seems fair.
Me: Oh yeah? Well, you could avoid it by eating your lunch right now.
Boo: No. I think I'll take the punishment.
 
Then she spent a significant amount of time asking me if it was time yet for her punishment to start. Weird. She did very well though. She was, of course, starving by the time it came time to eat so it wasn't too hard to sit and shovel in the bites. After her time was up I said, "good job! now I want you to keep eating but you can relax a little too." She said "Well, actually, I put the pillow on the cat so maybe I should stay on punishment for longer." I lurv my kid!
 
I lurv my other kid, too although I really am going to have to get some kind of a handle of the dealing with the wiggling. I get that she REALLY wants to be alot more mobile than she can be in her essentially not-yet-walking state but last night she had just been wiggling soooo much and being soooo impatient and fussy that (as I was trying to get through the door with her squirmy self plus a load of groceries) I just got exasperated and set her down on the porch whilst I popped inside to put down the bags. She, of course, promptly fell against the house and got a a very awful scrape on her cheek and a bump on her head. Nice. God, I suck at this parenting thing.
 

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Prayers and good wishes going out to BBQ's special friend. I hope she feels/gets/stays better soon. Let me know if there's anything one so removed from the situation as myself can do to assist.