A while back, my daughter and I were running late. I dropped her off at her school's front door. As she ran out of the door, I yelled, “Bye, I love you!”
My daughter ran to the front door, but stopped half way, walked back to the car, and knocked on the window.
Thinking she forgot something, I lean over and open her door. I look at her quizzically.
She leans her head, looks at me, and says, “Um, yeah... I would appreciate if you wouldn't yell that.”
Then she closed the door and headed back to school.
But I found this can be used to my advantage.
My daughter and I were in a store and got into a kicking fight. I had had enough and told her so – of course, after I got in the last kick! :)
My daughter, obviously, did not want to leave it there and tried to kick me again.
I told her, “If you kick me one more time, I'm taking you to the front of the store, giving you a big hug and telling everyone here just how much I love you!”
She put her hands up in surrender, stepped back and said, “Okay, okay, I'm done!”
A man next to us laughed when he heard that.
Unfortunately, I found that this is practiced with sexual discrimination.
When I pick my daughter up at her mother's, she is always shouting, “Bye, Mom, I love you.” And her mother yells back that she loves her too.
So I asked her why her mother can yell I love you, but I can't.
“Yeah.... That's because she's Mom and you're Dad.”
“So just because she's Mom, she can yell I love you and hug you?”
“Well, not in public!”
So apparently there is a limit even for Mom!
Oh, and my darling daughter, if you're reading this,
I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And big hugs to you too!
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