From another parent:

But now he just launches into diatribes about how we’re so mean and we don’t let him do anything and we’re hateful people because we didn’t let him keep watching Bluey after the agreed upon number was watched #4yearolds

Yesterday, Benjamin, in tears, was yelling at me that mommy definitely MEANT to hit him with her purse, it was no accident, and she’s totally a meany for doing so.

But then, one hour later, I saw them on the couch together as he directed M— what they should build in their Minecraft world on the Switch.

For the last few months, most every night before bed, I ask Benjamin what his “successes” were that day. It’s a fun little ritual that devolves mostly into a time where he watches the text-to-speech write some pretty weird stuff in DayOne that I have to manually correct later. (He then demands that I text it to mommy and have Siri read back that text to us.)

Yesterday, M— put him to bed and I got this text from her:

His successes: “I didn’t tell daddy my successes because they were all about you.

1. we got to play Minecraft
2. we saw enderman!
3. we saw creepers”

Surprisingly, no mention on how mommy is the worst. 😀