Do you have conversations like this with DC?

joy143dh

DS: May I have a drink?

me: Sure, what would you like?

DS: What are my choices?

me: water, milk, juice, iced tea, lemonade...

DS: what else?

me: water with ice, milk with ice, juice with ice, iced tea with ice, lemonade with ice... I think you still have some gaterade in the fridge...

DS: what else?

me: That's all we have for drinks. What do you want?

DS: NO! what else?

me: That's it. What would you like?

DS: I'm not telling you.

me: ok, how about water?

DS: NO!

me: apple juice?

DS: NO!  THINK ABOUT IT!

me: David, I'm not playing this game.Just tell me what you want.

DS: ::screaming and crying:: P-UH-LEASE MOM. May I PLEASE have a drink?

me: YES, of course, but do you want something in particular or do you want me to surprise you?

DS: NO! I already TOLD you what I wanted.

::sigh::  I have this conversation more than once a day and I have no idea how to get past it.  He is then cried because I cannot guess what he wants for a drink.  I ended up giving him lemonade and then he cried because he didn't like my choice of straw color.

Someone pass the rum please.

ghm

See, you WERE lying! You had rum and failed to offer it to him

 

Yes, we have those conversations all the time and it's so annoying. 

ali-1411

That drives me crazy, DS wants everything to be a freaking guessing game.  Just tell me what you want!!!!

ali-1411

Or charades!!!  That was the Phase from Hell, let me tell you. 

Then he tried to do sign language for everything.  

superslug

My 4 year old is BAD about that! Drives me nuts, and sometimes if I do guess it, he changes his mind just so I won't be right!

evaazalea

Is it bad that after a few guesses I just refuse to play? I usually just say if you aren't going to pick something you get nothing... he'll pick. My son sounds a little less dramatic though, no tears involved.

4Speedy

ali-1411:

Then he tried to do sign language for everything.  

I know, WTF is up with that?  My kid tries to sign everything to me, too.  Of course, she doesn't know any real signs so it's just a series of goofy pantamimes.

And to the OP, the converstion you described about what to drink?  That's our daily conversation about what to wear. 

RobinSparkles214

My 4 year old DS is like this on a daily basis. It makes me want to freak out.

shopgirl78

TysMomPlusOne:

Is it bad that after a few guesses I just refuse to play? I usually just say if you aren't going to pick something you get nothing... he'll pick. My son sounds a little less dramatic though, no tears involved.

Me too.  My kids sometimes attempt this in the AM.