i know the feeling.

"no, i took one of the small vitamins and two of the big yesterday"

no sweetie, i gave you two small ones and one big one. "no" etc., until he comes close to crying. because. he's. right. and the fact that this doesn't matter doesn't matter.

i'm not quite sure whether it's a 7 year old thing or a man thing. *sigh*

Oh, maude! Tell me they aren't coming down with "male answer syndrome" already. they're so YOUNG! They can't possibly have already developed the need to have an answer for everything!

Help us! please!

Later in the day, he tried to convince me that I LIKE burned bagels.

ACK!!! It's only a matter of time before he's shoving food in my face, insisting that i try it because he KNOWS I'll like it.

lol. if you figure out how to deal with it, let me know! sometimes i get angry because he won't agree to drop it (and obviously i *know* i'm right!!) but really, it doesn't matter who's right and wrong when it's something trivial. and still i want him to quit it (because i'm right, remember?). it's quite something to teach a child to "drop it" when i myself would actually prefer it if he just admitted that i was right! (in the end, i try to make him think of something else - i'm not going to have a crying party over who did what when how about something that won't change the face of the world... sigh)

i sympathize with your frustration [i have never heard of "male answer syndrome" but i laughed reading that, it sure rings true], but i would advise not to worry too much unless he starts talking about eliminating social services and giving tax breaks to the wealthy.

Okay, dru. Some time has passed. Tempers have cooled and the 7-year old isn't reading this. So what did you put in his room?

oh, sheesh, j! he SWEARS I put 5 dollars in his bank. I should have just told him he was right, then I would have been a hero instead of a liar!