Me: Keenan.
Him: (nothing)
Me: Keenan. You cant take the tablet to school.
Him: (holds it up higher)
Me: Baby that is not how this work.
Him: (looks at me like I am the one being ridiculous)
Thats the picture. Thats the whole conversation. Tablet in one hand, fruit snacks in the other, Hot Wheels shirt, Hot Wheels shorts, the lil Nikes I told him not to wear in the grass, standing on the sidewalk like he about to board a flight. And that face. Yall see that face? That is not a face that is about to hand over a tablet. That is a face that is about to make me late.
Here go the thing tho. He four. He dont know what school is yet. In his mind he leaving the house, so he packed. Tablet for the ride, snacks for the trip, shoes clean. Thats a whole plan. He put more thought into this morning than some grown men I know put into a whole week.
So I stood there on the sidewalk and had a negotiation with a four year old about a Samsung. I lost the first round. He got in the car with it. I won the second round in the parking lot when I told him the teacher would take it and keep it. He handed it over so fast lul. Mama cant scare him but the teacher can. Noted.
He got his name from his uncle and I can see now he got the nerve too. Pray for me. Its only September.
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