Thomas the oddly-named Tank Engine

Train with Mummy
Originally uploaded by The Kilian and the Riley

This track and "action table" consumes most of your in-house time, and you can see that you and Mummy are enjoying yourselves.
On the behavior front: we have adopted a zero-tolerance policy towards whining, bad behavior and crying, which has made March pretty rough, but being able to write this from the hindsight of April, it seems to be paying off.
The things that you do that we love:
1. You are a gentle kind soul, and very affectionate.
The more-than-slightly-longer-list-of-stuff that we are trying to weed out:
1. You are a Seinfeldian high-talker. And the volume is epic. So we are trying to teach you about using your "indoor voice."
2. You cry at a moment's notice for no good reason or because you didn't get your way.
3. You whine like Papa's first car that never got serviced.
This last bit is the hardest to take, so we have resorted to ignoring any statement that is made with your high-pitched voice. That ignoring is prefaced with "I don't understand what you are saying because you aren't using big boy voice." This seems pretty effective.
They are echoing the zero tolerance at your school, and the net result is that your demeanor has been much better this past week.
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