Keep your “NOs” to the minimum

She was being pulled from the car to the school, screaming and kicking her legs in the air. When asked the hassled mother told us this – for weeks together she wants to wear the same full- length jeans to school!
She is fascinated to wear these long trousers seeing her big brother wear them and wants to imitate him. The mother’s plight is that she has to get them washed almost every other day and that she cannot use the pretty frocks that she has bought for her daughter and all that will become small in no time.

Isn’t it better to give in to their small fancies like clothes but reserve the big word NO exclusively for important matters that will affect her body and mind.