11:00 a.m., Waters house: We're having a talk about how if we go to Chick-Fil-A for lunch and Ethan wants to play in the play area, he has to come down the slide by himself.
M: "Ethan, the playground is for kids only. Mommy and Daddy can't play with you like we can at the park. If you want to play there you will have to come down the slide or climb down on your own. Do you understand?"
E: "Yeah. Ethan slide by self."
M: "Can you do that by yourself?"
E: "Yeah!"
12:15 p.m., Chick-Fil-A playground:
E (wailing and crying): "MOMMY COME GET YOU! MOMMY COME GET YOU!"
And so, with other kids waiting to come down the slide and another mother crawling in to get my kid because she didn't apparently approve of our choice to try and make him come out on his own if he got mad enough, I climbed backward up the slide to get him. We'll be going through the drive-through now for a while.
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