Evening of Acting Up

First, Sienna slammed the door when I asked her to do her reading homework before I could give her any mini chocolate. Then in the bathroom she asked me to get rid a spider on the ceiling, "I don't want to be friends with a spider, Momma!" "You and spider stay in the same house, Sienna!" I un-assured her. Hearing this, she was in the middle of brushing her teeth and she just let the water out of her mouth and down her shirt... She got time-out twice for her deeds.

I felt the need to sum up her acts before she went down for the night. "First, you slammed the door..." I started when she put her finger on my lips and said, "mommy, you need to come to Ms Ahmed's class?" "Why?" asked I. "Oh, it's very very quiet, everybody... and you talk very very nicely. Mommy, I got ice cream. I was the only one, because I was like this..." she was doing almost a yoga-like posture with her mouth shut completely...

I admit. I had to adjust my attitude as well as my tone of voice before I continued my lecturing of the night.