Parenting

I've noticed recently that my son, who is 3, is very easy to reason with. It really became apparent last week when he put a piece of plastic wrapper up his nose. At first he was freaking out and REALLY wanted the plastic out, but after one attempt to get it out with tweezers he changed his mind and said he'd rather just leave the plastic in than have the tweezers in his nose. But throughout the entire plastic in the nose adventure, which involved a trip to urgent care and about half-a-dozen more attempts by the doctors to get the plastic before they successfully extracted it, he would freak out if any of the extraction devices came near his nose. But if I told him that they just want to look with a light to see if the plastic was still there (and they really were just looking) then he would almost immediately clam down and become completely cooperative. The whole incident was so surreal, I'd love it have it on film just to see what it looked like from the outside.

I'd say he's becoming more independent decisions, but he's always been as unpredictable as he is opinionated. So, it's always been easier to let him make his own choices.

On a side note, I've entered a clip of him into a Parenting Magazine contest. I don't know if it should count towards my 4 contests in 4 weeks as it's old footage that didn't require any editing. I think I've posted it here before, and since the contest is decided by judges with no viewer tracking, I'll just post the link to his video:
Video Contest

Oh, be aware it will automatically roll into the next kid's video at the end of his. And so on. If you're not careful you could end up watching a lot of kids the someone thinks are cute.