Mind Games

Brindi is becoming too smart for her own good and is learning how to use past situations to her own advantage. For example, Brindi is in a climbing stage and steps and climbs on about anything. Occasionally in church she will step on my scriptures or lesson manual or the hymn book and we immediatly tell her no, sometimes scold her which sometimes results in us taking her out in the foyer depending on how she reacted to the scolding. Well today in church we were sitting and listening to the talks and we were getting close to the end of the meeting. Brindi, feeling its time to go, proceeds to pick up the hymn book place it on the ground and tries to step on the book. We quickly lift her to her seat, tell her no and place the book back. Brindi again gets off the seat, grabs the book, sets it on the ground, opens it and then very slowly while looking at me, as if to say "what are you going to do about it" proceeds to try and step on the book again. So I grab her and lift her to my lap and hold her. At this point she points to the door next to us and says "uh...outside." Now I do not know about you but I am convinced her whole purpose for stepping on the book was for us to punish her by taking her out in the foyer, which I think is what she wanted to do anyways. And so it begins. The mind games and psychology of raising our child, and were not even to the teenager years.