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Aug. 1st, 2008 10:03 pmI am a bad parent.
Tonight, Nicholas wanted to play Wii Sports with me. He picked golf, at which he has no real chance (I play scratch rounds, he gets through nine holes around +12-+15). and there's no real way to throw a game without being really obvious about it, and even then, it might not work. So i covinced him to switch to baseball, because it is possible to throw easy pitches and try all sorts of crazy stuff like trying to bunt.
So he won, 1-0, and then had the chutzpah to start trash-talking and getting in my face about it, so i challenged him to a rematch. Put up two runson solo home runs with the first two batters, and his face dropped, so i relented. Unfortunately, he took that as a sign to trash talk some more, so the second inning started with another pair of long home runs, and again relenting.Top of the third, it was still all check-swing ground balls to the infield, and he started getting mouthy yet again. Then in his half of the third, i deliberately walked six straight hitters to make the game 4-3, and proceeded to strike out the side.
I am a bad parent. Evil. Mean and nasty. But i'm not going to put up with any five-year-old getting in my face.
Tonight, Nicholas wanted to play Wii Sports with me. He picked golf, at which he has no real chance (I play scratch rounds, he gets through nine holes around +12-+15). and there's no real way to throw a game without being really obvious about it, and even then, it might not work. So i covinced him to switch to baseball, because it is possible to throw easy pitches and try all sorts of crazy stuff like trying to bunt.
So he won, 1-0, and then had the chutzpah to start trash-talking and getting in my face about it, so i challenged him to a rematch. Put up two runson solo home runs with the first two batters, and his face dropped, so i relented. Unfortunately, he took that as a sign to trash talk some more, so the second inning started with another pair of long home runs, and again relenting.Top of the third, it was still all check-swing ground balls to the infield, and he started getting mouthy yet again. Then in his half of the third, i deliberately walked six straight hitters to make the game 4-3, and proceeded to strike out the side.
I am a bad parent. Evil. Mean and nasty. But i'm not going to put up with any five-year-old getting in my face.
