Today I was at the toy store with Gal Smiley, and it got to be time that we were leaving, to pick up Captain Jelly Belly at preschool. So I tried to convince Gal to come along, quietly now, but she is two years old, and nothing comes easy or quietly when you are two. She started getting mad and I could smell a meltdown brewing on the horizon.
Then I said, “But [the Captain] needs us! He’s waiting! In fact, I hear him calling you!”
Then I called quietly under my breath, “[Gal Smiley]! [Gal Smiley]!”
She immediately went into high alert mode. “[Captain] is sad! He needs help!” she said, and was out the door like lightening. We rushed to the car and raced to his aid.
Am I a bad Mommy that I find it pretty hilarious? This is a trick that is not going to get old!
TurtleHead 
Naaaahhh. It’s hilarious. I see nothing wrong with making your kids do tricks or tricking them into good behaviour so long as the tricking doesn’t scar them for life or leave them with a really far out, inaccurate view of reality.
Fabulous! If only adults could be fooled so easily.
On the contrary, I think it makes you mother of the year. That is absolutely brilliant, and I suspect the only reason you find it so funny is that you’re so proud of yourself. And you should be. Not that tricking a two-year-old is a Nobel prize-winning act or anything, but the way you did it? Pure genius.