4yr old: "I don't want to nap today!"
Me: "You really should, just a short one, since we're staying up late tonight. You get wild when overtired."
4yr old: "No, I'll be calm, I'm not tired."
4yr old: *jumps around couch, dropkicks me in the face.*
Sigh.
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Good thing it was me he dropkicked, not my wife. I'm nearly indestructible, so no damage done.
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(addendum: He really, really should have napped and was in nightmare mode from 5pm onward. Oh well. He knows not napping is an option, but 90% of the time it ends poorly, so we still try to encourage it. I don't want to go back to driving him in the car to get him to sleep...)
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Sounds like a handful!
And yeah, extremely relate on the "I'm not tired!" part. Getting the kid to sleep is one topic where we are extremely strict (that and nothing else, essentially).
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Sleep and violence toward us/sister are our strict topics. He's not maliciously violent, but he's so physical and energetic that inevitably something happens.
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