Hug Twice

CJ has entered a “testing limits” phase with a vengeance. Tell him not to do something, and he will *almost* do it. Ask him to do something, and he will refuse until he decides the consequence of disobeying is too steep.

This is normal, and I know that. What he doesn’t know, of course, is that it as hard for me to be the bad guy as it is for him to suffer the consequences of his actions. On Sunday we went to the zoo and the park. At the park, he hissed at a little boy (who apparently had growled at him first but I didn’t know that part). CJ learned “hissing” from our cats, and it is something he knows he is not supposed to do under any circumstances. He had previously been warned about it, and that was the last straw. Into the car we went, with him crying and wailing, and we went home. And it broke my heart to do so, but at the same time, the child seems to only remember how to behave if he knows clearly the consequence for not behaving and doesn’t want that to happen.

Sigh.

Hopefully that is the end of his hissing for a while at least. Later at home he came up to me and said he was sorry for the hissing.

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