Kicking Your Brother is Bad

Reagan has started moving enough so that Chris and Wilson are able to feel movement. I thought this would be more exciting than it really is for Wilson. Chris, of course, was excited and I'm excited, Wilson is just sort of annoyed with the entire thing (movement, not Reagan as a person).

He felt Reagan moving around and said "What's he doing?" (Again, we don't know Reagan's gender but as far as Wilson is concerned it is a "he" and there's really no point in arguing with him.) I said "That's Reagan kicking." Bad choice of description. Wilson looked at me and said, very sad, "Mommy, Reagan's kicking me and that's bad choices."

I forgot. I'm dealing with preschool mindset. If you "kick" someone, you have to get time out or some other form of punishment. So now I'm sitting there stuck with a son who is upset that he is getting kicked and I'm trying to figure out how to explain to Wilson that this kind of kicking is like saying "Hi". But then I run the risk of him getting time out at school because he started kicking people to say "hi". This is the proverbial rock and a hard place. I can't give a kid who isn't even born yet time out, can I? On the other hand Wilson has just gotten his feelings hurt because his unborn sibling is "kicking" him. So... "Wilson, do you want a milkshake?"

Out of rock and hard place. This parenting thing gets exponentially difficult when there is more than one.