Everyday after playschool, I pick Tee up and we go straight home for some quick grub, bath and nap. No questions. She has to be down by 2pm latest or we’d be partying to Lionel Ritchie’s all night long.

Today, for some obscure reason, she kicked up a big fuss about going straight home for lunch and insisted we went to Bangsar Village instead. She claimed she was really bored of home. So bored that she wouldn’t give her toys away when prompted. I mean, since her toys no longer entertained her, she might as well donate them to charity. Right?

Well, look here kiddo, it’s not like we can afford to eat out at your favourite hang-out, BV, everyday, so let’s make a deal. Let’s go straight home, have lunch, have a bath and nap and THEN, Mummy’ll take you to the playground. How about that? I bartered.

The whining began…….which then turned into loud grumbles and then a yelling pork seller in the market, in an epileptic fit, screaming for customers.

I asked her what she would like to eat at BV and she replied that she wanted porridge from McDonald’s instead. I suggested we did a take-away porridge from a coffee shop and go home to eat as I could order through phone and do a pick quick up from the coffee shop. But NO. She insisted it had to be McDonald’s porridge. Because they had a playground there. Because ONLY the McDonald’s porridge is ‘nice’. Those playgrounds? They’re real pullers, I tell ya.

Without much energy to put up a fight, I relented.

After driving a merry-go-round about McDonald’s TEN TIMES, I finally decided we couldn’t go to McDonald’s because there was no parking.

Hurricane Katrina arrived through Tee’s mouth.

I lost it.

I shouted for a whole XX minutes whilst still driving round and round McDonald’s to which she went silent and had this guilty glazed look on her ‘pau’ face. I’d expected her to bawl but she didn’t. She finally blurted that if I drove round another THREE times and still couldn’t find parking, then we’d go home and eat what Mommy had cooked at home. [Well, thank you, Tee. That’s very considerate of you. However, damage is DONE!!!]

Alas, her prayers were answered when we found parking directly beside McDonald’s so off we went to slurp her MSG loaded porridge. I felt like I’d just skinned a cat the whole time for yelling so fiercely at her. I’d never done it like that before and she’d never not cried to any of my angry yelling sessions. OK, I don’t do it that often…..

Later that night, I grovelled to her for yelling and she told me that she felt scared when I was screaming. But said that she also knew that even when Mommy was angry, that Mommy still loved her all the way to the moon and back. For always.

She was an angel throughout the whole day. For what was left of the next six hours.

Is this what it takes to get good behaviour out of a three year old???!!! GEEEEZ!

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Who is Mamapumpkin?
Mamapumpkin spent 7 years in London committing crimes to gain her Bartlett degree in Architecture. She then spent 7 years as a Stay At Home Mom raising her children as documented in this blog of over 15 years thereafter returning to the Corporate World stronger than ever as the Country Director of a British Multinational. She sets out to prove to all, that you can have anything and everything that you want; if you have that fire of desire burning within and the drive to work hard. Even better with much love.

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