For the last couple of months Cassia has taken to using toilet paper as toy. She unrolls so much, then leaves it there, she uses lot for "my party" and then there are the times she's actually using it for its purpose and she has to have a perfect square or it's not good enough and she drops the ones she won't use on the floor. I'm desperate to stop her from wasting toilet paper, any ideas? My last one failed:
"Cassia, do you think it shows daddy you love him when you waste toilet paper?"
"I don't always love daddy," she said seriously, so of course my response was a very poorly concealed laugh of, "What do you mean, "you don't always love daddy"?"
"I don't love daddy when he's at work."
"Oh, you don't?"
"No, I only love daddy when he's here."
"Daddy has to work. If he didn't work we wouldn't live in a house, or have toilet paper, or food, or a car. We'd have nowhere to live, and be so hungry we would die."
"I want to have a house, and food, and clothes, but beautiful clothes, not hand-me-downs from my friends and cousins, and I want daddy to be here all the time because I don't love him when he's at work."
Apparently the child's handbook doesn't come with instructions on unconditional love, it's something that they just have to learn on their own. Darn.
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