While many people are trying to guarantee their children’s success, I am setting them up for failure.

Having tired of the misery of dining out with children, I decided to use that old standby, The Threat.  “If you don’t sit and eat your dinner, we’re leaving”.

The truth, however, was that we were not leaving under any circumstances.  We had ordered, we were hungry, and we were going to have to pay whether we stayed or left.  We were not leaving.  And the children knew that.