dirtlooter
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My son was about four and in trouble all of the time. He got into everything and tore up things every time I turned around. Now there was a difference between taking something apart to see how it worked and just tearing it up. He had a destructive side along with a denial side. We lived out in the country and he had energy to burn, I just wished that it could have been used in a better manner. I came home from work one day to see almost every tree close to the house had been hacked on something fierce. All had been hacked very low to the ground, a very good evidence that someone very short, say maybe a 4 year old had done this crime. I had to find out what he had used to do this with and was afraid that he might have cut himself as well. His mother had been inside all day and never checked on him other than yelling out the door.
As I angrily walked around, I found the instrument of destruction over on the ground by the big oak tree. He had found the machete and gone wild with it. So I took a moment and calmed down and then located him. David was for some reason, taking a nap. I could only assume that he wore himself out with all of that hacking and had to sleep. I got him up and took him outside and we walked from tree to tree as I pointed to the obvious damage and asked him as to who had done such a thing. David started of with total denial of any knowledge but then I showed him the machete and the evidence of the bark etc still on his clothes. He slowly looked back up to me and said, "Well....it was accidentally on purpose."
Turned out he had been watching a cartoon of He Man of the Universe and He Man had chopped somethings up with his sword. I gave him a light spanking and then fixed him up with a board with about thirty nails started in it. I gave him a small hammer and told him to bang away to his heart's delight on the nails and nothing else. He did this for about six or eight nails and then got tired of it. Several years later, I found that hammer stuck in a tree. He got his butt busted on a regular basis it is hard to believe that he has the job that he has now plus he has a 3 year old and a five year old, both boys, both just like him LOL.
As I angrily walked around, I found the instrument of destruction over on the ground by the big oak tree. He had found the machete and gone wild with it. So I took a moment and calmed down and then located him. David was for some reason, taking a nap. I could only assume that he wore himself out with all of that hacking and had to sleep. I got him up and took him outside and we walked from tree to tree as I pointed to the obvious damage and asked him as to who had done such a thing. David started of with total denial of any knowledge but then I showed him the machete and the evidence of the bark etc still on his clothes. He slowly looked back up to me and said, "Well....it was accidentally on purpose."
Turned out he had been watching a cartoon of He Man of the Universe and He Man had chopped somethings up with his sword. I gave him a light spanking and then fixed him up with a board with about thirty nails started in it. I gave him a small hammer and told him to bang away to his heart's delight on the nails and nothing else. He did this for about six or eight nails and then got tired of it. Several years later, I found that hammer stuck in a tree. He got his butt busted on a regular basis it is hard to believe that he has the job that he has now plus he has a 3 year old and a five year old, both boys, both just like him LOL.
