unhinged
There comes a point in the life of a 5-year-old where she has got herself in as much trouble as it is possible to be in. And once her friends have been sent home and she is grounded and confined to her room and is screaming and crying and her parents are trying as hard as they can to ignore her because there is no way to defuse the situation now, there is only waiting for the storm to pass.
And for a certain type of 5-year-old, this is the time to turn bright red and shriek at great volume whatever is spilling forth from your unchained id. Such as:
“You are pinheads! Your heads are full of poop and it is spilling out your ears!”
“I hate you and you have to get a new child! Go get a new child!”
“Let me talk! Let me talk or I am going to call the police!”
“Go jump off the balcony! Right now!”
“Get out of this house right now, I mean it. I’ll show you!”
“If you love me you will go get my friends back! If you hate me you will let them go home!”
“I want my mommy to come here right now! Right now!”
“Take that!” (throws pillow) “And take that!” (throws blanket)
“Stop laughing! This is not funny! One more laugh and it will happen, I will show you!”
We laughed until we collapsed, actually.
Oh, sadly, remember such conversations. Just hand her the phone and tell her to call grandma cause no one else wants to talk to her right now!!
What in the world did she do?
I too would like to know what she did.