But sometimes you never know how they will react to something, either in a good way or a bad way.
Take yesterday morning, for example. I went to Rite Aid to buy laundry detergent and decided to find something entertaining, yet cheap, to keep them occupied for a while.
After walking around for a bit, I decided on a book of word searches for each of them. They are both at an age where they are reading, so I knew they would be able to do them. And at two bucks apiece, you can't get more cost effective than that.
When I got home, they were both really excited about it. Surprise number one. I knew they would be happy to have something to do, but I didn't know how psyched they would be about word searches. They basically jumped for joy when I handed them their prize.
Now comes that bad part.
Jayden pointed out to me that the answers were in the back, so I told them to give me the book and proceeded to rip the answer pages out because I figured they'd just cheat.
Ryan lost his everloving mind. Surprise number two.
When I say lost his mind, he screamed and cried and threw the mother of all tantrums...and it went on for a good hour.
If I had known he was going to react that way, I would never have done it.
I paid dearly for my mistake...with a headache.
Geez, he's becoming a moody little bugger lately.
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