Payback...that's what I'm living with right now. My parents are laughing aloud at the antics they see my children (both boy and girl) pull off nearly every day. My 4-year-old daughter wakes up and declares that she is going to be the mother today. She dictates to me that I'm going the wrong direction when we're driving home for lunch and she wants to go out to eat. She yells at me that I did not listen and obey her so now I can't eat any chocolate chip cookies. My 2-year-old boy takes the initiative to scrub the toilets with my bath towels and, upon finding him and telling him to stop, he declares "No, Mommy! I do it myself." When I ask that he pick up his toys, he says, "No, you do it." Yes, payback...that's what I'm living with. At ages 2 and 4, I was this same level of bossy. This year, the Ban Bossy movement seems to be sweeping the nation as it attempts to ban the word bossy from descriptions targeting girls as they ass...
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