I Wanna Talk to the Manager

I’ve written before that raising a toddler can make a dad feel a lot like a car salesman, particularly at mealtime. These standoffs frequently end with some tense negotiations, and a father telling a child that he will take their offer back to the manager to see if they can work something out.

Most of the time this back and forth is subtle, then there are times like the other night when our three-year-old Slugger became unhappy with me. He looked me dead in the eyes and said, “I’m gonna tell Mom-Mom.” Apparently he didn’t like how I was handling this particular situation so he asked to speak to the manager. I told him to go ahead and talk to Mom-Mom because best case scenario for me these days is going into time out.