The Story of Lizard & Mouse

Like what Jie Yan/Shan's Mummy said, occasional white lies need to come into our parenting life. I know, I know...we are not suppose to tell lies but honestly, it's like our "secret weapon' in handling them! Infect, I even tell and show (we have a Chinese story book) Ching Ern she is not suppose to tell lie as her nose will grow long like Pinocchio. I tell you, only once and she remembered that!

So our common white lies are "Lizard" and "Mouse" to Ching Ern.

Lizard:
She is afraid of lizard (very) because she gets to see them frequently either at our house or at Poh Poh's house. We all know lizard moves very fast and thus, really freak her out! So right now when she is not behaving, we will use lizard to ask her to do things like:

- Keep her toys
- Going to nap/bed time
- Climbing up staircase unsupervised
- many more

Mouse:
Ern has no problem in past motion everyday but she can 'keep it' if we didn't ask her to do so. Ya, she is the type that can 'deposit her gold"! LOL

One night while we are remind her to 'do business', she did sat quietly on the potty but her mind and soul had done don't know where! After several 'sweet talk' by daddy, it didn't work. So daddy introduced "The Mouse" story to her. Well, it wasn't really a real story but daddy just came out with this:

Daddy: Ern, come...touch here (pointing to the chest)
Ern: *reach out her hand and touch*
Daddy: *Move his chest muscle *
Daddy: Can you feel something is moving?
Ern: *Nod her head and start to show worried face*
Daddy: See, that's because there are mouse inside..because daddy didn't 'ng ng' (past motion in baby language)! So if you don't 'ng ng', mouse will grow inside and move like this..
Ern: * poo immediately *

I tell you, I was sitting next to them nursing Sean and I couldn't stop laughing. In order to stay 'align' with daddy, I quickly turned my head and laughed.


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