An overheard scene:
Lily: Come on Chloe, time to take a shower.
Chloe: Okay mommy (gets into the closet and makes shwish noises)
Lily: All done, come get dressed now.
Chloe: Okay mommy.
Lily: You look pretty. Now it's time to eat, let's go to the kitchen.
Chloe: Okay mommy.
While trotting by me in the hall, Lily announces, "We're playing house." Obviously. Yet I wonder. If playing at being mommy and child is a reflection of their reality, why are they so much more obedient to "mommy" than they are to Mommy? If I ever asked any of the kids to do something and had an instant response of "okay Mommy" followed by prompt action, I would think I was being punk'd!! Maybe tomorrow morning I'll get up and tell the kids, "today we're playing house, I'll be the Mommy and you be the kids - now let's eat breakfast and get dressed." Think I'll get an "okay Mommy," from any of them?
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Sounds like it's worth a try. Let me know if that works! I'm sitting here trying to figure out how that might work with 2 boys...
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