Overheard: Peer Pressure Edition

After she confessed to being less-than-kind to a friend at a birthday party yesterday, I chastised Ava and insisted she be nice to everyone. Here’s the ensuing exchange.

Ava: “Well Ginger did it too!”

Mom: “Well if Ginger jumped off a bridge, would you jump, too?

Ava, after a long pause and with much conviction: “Yes.”

It was my first time throwing out an old-school retort like that, and it failed miserably. Too early?

3 responses to this post.

  1. Posted by Laura on April 18, 2010 at 5:01 pm

    Oh no! Is it also too early to introduce the concept of the rhetorical question?

  2. Posted by Jessica on April 18, 2010 at 6:16 pm

    Oh Ava….is she already a teenager??

  3. Posted by Liana on April 22, 2010 at 11:00 am

    Ava is so funny

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