"Violet, do you want to not have fun?"

One of the things that Jack has been doing lately is trying to teach Violet about the consequences of her choices.  It's pretty funny, because he can be quite the doomsday predictor.

Violet is still sitting in a rear-facing car seat.  One of the reasons actually is because Jack insists, even though I think Violet would love to face forward.

"If we are in a crash, it's better that she break her legs than her neck," he constantly lectures me.

I used to have a mirror hanging in front of her so that I could see her face through my rearview mirror.  Over the past several weeks, a tiny crack in the mirror had been getting bigger and bigger.  Violet wasn't helping things at all by constantly kicking the mirror.  Jack kept trying to get her to stop.

"Violet, do you want splinters?  Do you want an ouchie?  No kicking the mirror," he scolded.

Eventually, she ended up kicking it one too many times, and the mirror cracked from end to end.  I removed it before any shards came out.

The last time my parents came to town, Violet was saying that she wanted to go to their house.  I think she was confusing their hotel with their home, but Jack knows that my parents actually live quite a ways away.  As much as he loves his grandparents, he absolutes hates traveling in any form, including driving.

"I want to go to Lovey Dovey's house," Violet said.

"Violet, do you want to be bored?" Jack asked, referring to the seven-hour car ride up to their house. "Do you want to not have fun?"

A couple days ago, Violet put one of her Lego minifigures and one of Jack's Lego pieces into the mouth of this toy tyrannosaurus rex they have.  Jack was supremely annoyed, because he had a really hard time getting them out.  I helped him extract them, only to have Violet try to put another piece in its mouth.

"Violet!" he huffed.  "Do you want to never see your Lego piece ever again?"

I like how he prefaces every admonition with, "Violet, do you want...?"  Sometimes, she doesn't really understand and answers "yes."  Then he says, "No, you do not want that!"  And she obediently parrots, "No."

It's all I can do to keep from laughing every time.