Let the Punishment Fit the Crime

"Dad, I want Ethan to come to my soccer practice," Logan said. 

"I don't," I replied.

It's not that I don't like the boy.  It's just that the last thing I needed right now was a preteen boy complaining to me for the next straight hour.

"Why do you want him to come with us?" I asked.

"I need him to be punished for being mean to me," he stated.   "Make him come with us.  Can you do that for me?"

No, punishment though it may be.

- 25 August 2014