How to convince a 4-year old you need to leave without her to go to work...

Tell her that you have to go to work like you have to go to the bathroom. It doesn't matter what either you or she wants, when you have to go, you have to go, or poo gets everywhere.

The kids couldn't pick the grand-daughter up yesterday, so as usual, it was crying and clinging central when Da-Ma had to go to work this morning. I had to sit her down and tell her that it was very important to go to work when it was time to go, and she wouldn't take all sorts of explanations like "A lot of people need Da-Ma to help them, and they're already waiting for her to come to work to tell them what to do" to the final exasperated "if I don't go, I lose my job" as an answer.

However, comparing being late to work was the same as to going poo in one's pants in public because you couldn't get to a bathroom in time worked, and she graciously gave me a hug and kiss, and allowed me to leave, informing me that she would stay and take care of Grandy before Mommy and Daddy came by to pick her up.

Haele