I've heard this about three-year-olds before, and I never understood it because I've always loved babysitting three-year-olds or teaching them Sunday School or working with them in a daycare setting. So your last sentence makes me laugh.
Alex is definitely argumentative. Wow is Alex argumentative. My absolute favorite is when she responds to some variation on "Why?" "Because I asked you to" with a cool, "Is there another reason?"
But yeah, it's the development of logic gone wrong. You should hear her disqusitions on why shortbread is kind of a breakfast food, and on how she's too hungry to eat her breakfast eggs because she needs two things, eggs and shortbread, and her hunger is too great to allow her to eat the eggs if they're all alone on the plate. But fruit isn't an adequate addition because "I need something flat and square to eat."
...Okay, maybe you shouldn't hear it. Because you've raised two three-year-olds already. But someone should hear it besides me. ;-)
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Alex is definitely argumentative. Wow is Alex argumentative. My absolute favorite is when she responds to some variation on "Why?" "Because I asked you to" with a cool, "Is there another reason?"
But yeah, it's the development of logic gone wrong. You should hear her disqusitions on why shortbread is kind of a breakfast food, and on how she's too hungry to eat her breakfast eggs because she needs two things, eggs and shortbread, and her hunger is too great to allow her to eat the eggs if they're all alone on the plate. But fruit isn't an adequate addition because "I need something flat and square to eat."
...Okay, maybe you shouldn't hear it. Because you've raised two three-year-olds already. But someone should hear it besides me. ;-)