This video doesn’t really require much of an introduction, but I’d feel lazy if I just put a video up without typing anything at all. This is Graham a couple of nights ago. He doesn’t want to eat his hot dog. In fact he doesn’t want to eat his hot dog so much that he’d rather have... well... I’ll let you watch it to find out for yourselves. (Sorry about the quality of the video, it was filmed on my camera phone.)
For those of you who don’t have young kids and are therefore not adept at understanding constant whining I’ll go ahead and post the transcript of the video below.
Me: What do you want Graham?
Graham: [Crying] A spankin’
Me: You want a spankin’?
G: [Still crying] Yeah.
Me: You want one now?
G: [Still crying] Yeah.
Me: Because you don’t want to eat your hot dog?
G: [Still crying] No.
Me: Can you eat your hot dog please.
G: [Still crying] But I don’t want to.
Me: What do you want?
G: [Yes, still crying] I want a spankin’ now.
Perhaps someone told him what they make hot dogs out of, or maybe there are just some days where you’d rather have a spankin’ than eat a hot dog. Some things never change.
Also, I’d like to point out that nothing says “loving father” like videoing your kids crying and laughing about it on your blog. It’s OK though, I really think that this will be one of those things that we can bond over and laugh about later on in life... probably during an extended therapy session.
