The girl has 2 weeks left of school. She outgrew her uniform shoes. I don't want to invest $50 in good shoes she will outgrow or wear out playing dress-up over the summer. So I scoped out the local payless before picking her up from school. I put the acceptable shoes in her size all in a row (with the clerk's permission) with the least expensive ones in the middle. As soon as we walked into the store, I told her she couldn't have those shoes. I didn't even let her try them on until she'd tried on all of the other acceptable ones, and found them wanting. A pair of glitter shoes had caught her eye. I said, "NO, but I GUESS you can try on the other ones I said you couldn't have." She was instantly in love with them and wanted no other shoes in the store.
Sometimes I think I may have a handle on this parenthood stuff, then reality comes along and knocks me on my bottom.
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