Brody Strikes Again...

So not only can we not only keep Brody from undressing himself, peeing on the grass, opening beers like a college student, knocking down Christmas trees, sleeping in strange places, playing in his own fecal matter, placing grass on stranger's heads, and numerous other things one could not even imagine a three year old could get into... we can now add locking his parents out of the house. After pleading with him several times to come up out of the basement because we had to leave I tried the old "I'm leaving without you... bye" trick as I walked out the door to buckle Ozzye into his car seat. Now this has worked like a charm for my first 3 children. I discovered it early on with Kain and continued to find it useful with the others. Usually as soon as I pull it out of my back pocket the kids start running saying "I'm coming, don't leave without me". Sure the first time I used it I thought it was a bit mean to instill the fear of their parent leaving them behind but when ones hands are full and you have tried reasoning with them for much longer than you have one concludes that desperate times calls for desperate measures. I no longer feel bad about scarring my children with this as Brody as proven it either does not cause the damage one might think it would or he is smart enough to call my bluff since the joke was on me the other day. One thing for sure is it did get him up out of the basement and to the back door. To which he then slammed behind me and locked me out. And then when I came back to knock on the door for him to open it he laughed at me on top of that. He is very lucky he had a locked door between him and I at this point. He was also lucky he decided to open it soon after he had his laugh at my expense. I think we are both learning as we go along... I am learning everything I thought I knew about parenting doesn't work with Brody and he is learning how to keep himself "safe" just long enough for me to find the humor in his personality.