the rules...

An incident in school yesterday has made 5 rules out of us!

The class was going for an outside walk. And when the children do their walk, they will hold on to a hoop. They get to choose the hoop they want to hold onto. And one child (Daddy thought it was Ryan) got hold a red hoop first. Bryan saw the red hoop and wrung the hoop out of the child's hands and, of course, this kind of behaviour couldn't be tolerated. So Miss Julie pulled Bryan aside and started talking to him. As expected, he cried before Miss Julie could even talk any sense into him. Recognise this typical snatch-and-go-and-then-cry-when-the-object-is-returned-pattern from any younger child? Yes, he's been observing how meimei gets away with crimes like this and he's doing it in school now. Anyway, cut the long story short, Bryan was made to miss the walk and ended up with a time-out session in the director's office. But the last straw was that he didn't tell us about it at all when he was home. All I could sense from him was that he wanted to go to the playground badly when he got home that afternoon. In the end, Daddy only found out about it when Miss Julie told him the next day.

So when Mommy found out about it, it was punishment and 5 rules henceforth.

The Rules:
1) Always listen to (obey) Daddy and Mommy.
2) We do not fight.
3) We do not snatch.
4) We do not cry for no reason.
5) We share toys and play together.

The rules apply when we're home, outside, anywhere at all times. And in school, he has to listen to his teachers.

We'll see how it goes from here.

By the way, it was Jake and not Ryan. And I'm secretly relieved that the tension between Bryan and Ryan isn't stretched any further than it already is.