I'm not sure what this says about me as a father...

...but our daughter can still remember this incident and doesn't mind re-telling it either.

She was about five or six, it was summer time, it was hot. I asked her if she wanted to come to the corner shop to get an ice-lolly. No need to ask what the answer was.

We got there, she chose her lolly, I paid and we headed for the door.

"Dad, Dad, I want my ice-lolly now !"

"No, I'll carry it and you can have it when we get home in a minute." The shop was literally two minutes' walk away.

"I want it NOW!"

"No. If I give it to you now, you'll drop it."

"I won't, I won't, I WANT IT NOW"

"Well, if you insist. But if you drop it, you're not getting another one. OK?"

"OK, yes, yes,"

I took off the wrapper and gave her the lolly; she took a lick, took another...and dropped it on the pavement.

Neither of us said a word. She looked down at the fallen lolly then carried on walking home, stoically. I didn't say 'I told you so', I didn't say anything. She didn't cry, she didn't moan, she didn't say anything.
(Che Grimsdale Best before:, Mon 29 Nov 2010, 12:15, 2 replies)

While props to your daughter for taking it right on the chin and not uttering a word
Such lack of manners would not even be deigned with a reply from me.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Mon 29 Nov 2010, 13:58, closed)

Oh she'll get you back one day
....she's just waiting.
( buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Mon 29 Nov 2010, 20:27, closed)