Domestic Theater: Getting Toward "Yes"

Dramatis personae:
PARENT
CHILD, aged two and a half

[A kitchen. PARENT is loading dishwasher.]

CHILD (loudly but without anger, and at nothing and no one in particular): NO! NO! NOOO! NO!
PARENT: Why are you so negative?
CHILD: NO! BE POSITIVE!

[curtain]



Jan 3, 2010, 12:18 AM     attitude · domestic theater · parenting


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