One of the few things I enjoy about this stage between 3 and 4 are the attempts at mastering the adult turn of phrase. This particular episode was over the fact that my son took a handful of shredded cheese and placed it in the remains of a peeled onion, and I took said "cheese onion roll" away from him, telling him he was wasting good cheese by playing with it and he has plenty of pretend food that he can "pretend" eat. So my 3-3/4-year-old proceeds to "tell me off." It essentially involves him parroting bits and pieces of things he's heard us saying, well more or less.
"You ruined my dinner! I'm telling you, if I see you doing that again, I'll just take it away! You took my dinner!" etc., etc. As my blood pressure is rising listening to this, wondering if I should put a halt to this verbal barrage, in the middle of all these "insults" he throws in for good measure "I'M KIDDING YOU!!!" in the same manner you might say "F--- OFF." Yeah, not quite what I think you were going for.
It's these little moments of absurdity that keep me from strangling him.
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