Therapy?

I think it's a statistical fact that most people go into therapy because of their mother. In our house the opposite will happen - the mom will go into therapy because of the kid! I'll cite an example. Today in the car Ben was banging his toy drill against the window. I told him to stop a couple times and he didn't so I said I would take it away if he didn't quit it. Pretty typical mom stuff, no?

About two minutes later Ben tells me "Mom, I'm sad". Me "why?" Ben "Because you were mean to me. You said a bad word* and it made me sad so you were mean to me."

Obviously, his logic is a little off, but if he's this much of a head trip at two and half we are in for a rough road.

*Ben thinks a bad word is anything that he doesn't want to hear, i.e. it's time for bed, you can't have a cookie, etc.