Things You Shouldn't Say to Your 4 Year Old

So, during therapy the other day, I took Landon and Rev to Sonic for their waiting in the car for an hour "treat." Nothing like sugar and restraints:) ANYWAY, Landon had climbed up into Cotton's seat to get his drink, we partook and departed. I turned the corner and I heard Landon say "somethings wrong with me." As he continued to slide across the back of the van (nice to note here that he in fact thought something was wrong with him because he was sliding around in his chair??) I realized that not only was he in Cotton's booster (made for 50+ lbs) he was not buckled (good job mom). I told him to get buckled which immediately became a game. There was nowhere to really pull over at that moment, and of course a police man pulls up right beside us. Now, I was mad, and of course I said. "If you don't get that seat belt on that police man is going to throw you in jail!" YUP, that is what came out of my mouth:) Of course you know what comes next oh yes, sobbing crying, and still no seat belt. So as my son has a panic attack in the back seat I find a place to pull over calm him and yes, get him buckled (in the right seat.)

Later in the week (and this will be related, just hold on) we had family in for Thanksgiving and they all decided to watch Chronicles of Narnia. I thought okay, a pretty low key movie with talking animals, they probably won't pay attention anyway. WRONG!! So about a third of the way trough the witch tells the fox something about dying and then freezes him. UGH... Now I am prepared for the sex talk, the autism talk, but the death talk NOOOOOOOOOOO! So, I promptly send him out of the room (apparently my guests did not see this as a reason to ummm CHANGE THE CHANNEL) We had a brief talk about the fox, that he was not dead but frozen and the good lion would unfreeze him. So he was okay with that for now. A while later he said he had to go to the bathroom, and snuck into the living room just in time to see the witch killing the lion (YEAH). So, I again avoided the whole death thing and explained that the little boy did something wrong and was going to be punished and the Lion said that he would take his punishment for him because he loved him so much. He then said "OH NO THE POLICEMAN IS GOING TO COME AND THROW HIM IN JAIL!" (insert another panic attack) after a long talk about how Mommy was wrong, and that policemen were nice and were here to protect us, he fell asleep.

So I thought we are pretty much over it, except that every time we get in the car he reminds us to buckle up or else (could be worse) As for the death talk, I am going to have to seek help on that one. The other day he walked in my room, I was reading a book he said "mommy?" ..."yes" "Oh, (he says casually) I thought you were just dead." ?!?!?