Too much news

As I entered the kitchen last night, I discovered my 6yearold had spilled his milk all over the floor. He’d thrown a towel over it and was sitting there with a scowl on his face. After waiting a little while to see if he’d say anything, I said “Whoops, looks like you spilled your milk — guess you’ll need to clean it up.”

Apparently my son has been following The News very closely recently because here’s how he reacted: First he looked right at me and said there was no spilled milk. After that was easily refuted, he proclaimed with righteous indignation that he did not spill the milk and how dare I accuse him since I did not directly witness the spilling! Next he explained that it wasn’t what it looked like. When I wouldn’t buy it, he escalated to how badly I was treating him — I was a bully, intimidating, etc., while he was now the innocent victim. When I said “sweetie, you don’t need to get so upset, you had an accident, you spilled your milk, just do the right thing and clean it up,” he said I spilled the milk, and if it wasn’t me then it was one of my deepstate coconspirators who did.

The more I tried to keep the discussion about the spilled milk, the more he diverted it to how I hate him, what a horrible daddy I am, and if he gets punished for this, it’ll totally ruin the family as well as the entire community. At that point I realized my boy was too upset to deal with this and it would be best to give him a break and maybe take it up later. When I told him that, he calmed down, looked at me with a peculiar smile, and said “You know Dad, in the future there may be consequences for parents when parents go on a Witch Hunt against their kids.” Peter Rothenberg

Northford