No, Me Not.

Kids.

Insert eye roll.

Kids and their 'phases'.

Insert additional eye roll.

Magoo has taken to responding to our perfectly reasonable statements such as

"we're sitting down to have dinner now"

or

"tomorrow you're off to daycare, remember"

or

"you're being silly/dangerous/rude"

or

"you've got to pick those up before your bath"

or
"you get to go in the pool without Mummy or Daddy now that you're three"
or

"you're just so adorable"

with

"no, me not"


No, me not have a rest when me get home.

 Luckily, he's still fairly compliant, so it's more lip service than anything else.

No, me not.

 

First things first - the grammar.

Oh my, the grammar.

'No, I am not'

is the correctly formed negative response if he feels compelled to be painful resistant.

Secondly - "no"????

I. beg. your. pardon.??

Thirdly - the tone.

The boy has perfected a fast, smug effect to those three words that has Hubby and I repeating it to each other long after his last "no, me not" of the day.

It's both cute and irritating all at the same time.

A lot like a Smurf, really.

It is a 'phase', right?

I believe "I don't want to" comes next.
Or will it be "me no want to" just to please my inner grammar goddess.

Shar :-)