My son is IN LOVE with hotwheel type cars. Loves playing with them on the flat floor or sending them down the ramps on his car track table. He is very passionate about them. His favorite thing to do is line up like 7 or 8 of them and push them on a line down the hills on the table. Lorelai on the other hand pretends to want them and will walk and steal like one from the line up. This upsets him like a lot. He doesn't like her touching his cars at all. She is doing literally just to anger him. She has noticed how upsets it makes him and sees it as entertainment. It's a ridiculous show to watch. I step in some because Finn is very sensitive and isn't much of a fighter. He does nothing but cries. So I'll step in and get onto her for being mean to him. Sometimes I encourage him to take care of it and ask for it back. If he does she'll usually give it back. Tonight, however, he was eating a snack of graham crackers as he played at his track table, she came up and stole one car(a new one he received for his recently great potty efforts, so is still very cool and exciting). As she stood there waiting for him to get uspet, she was surprised to find that instead, he chose to start throwing pieces of cracker at her.
For me it was one of those moments of parenting where I had to take a few seconds to surpress the laughter I wanted to have in order to appear more serious in straightening out the squabble. It was beyond difficult. I barely had them apart and in time out before I rounded the corner where I could finally let it out. How often does this happen for you guys? What were your surpressing laughter moments?
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