Threats

Whenever we say no to anything or we tell Marce we're not going to do something he has proposed he threatens us every time by saying "Well, then I'm just going to be grumpy."

He threatens us with other phrases that don't really make sense. He just says any old thing. It's kind of funny but mostly an annoyance. I wonder where he gets it though huh...

At least when I do threaten, I'm trying to make them real instead of things that I would never follow through or things that are quite impossible. Instead of "If you don't stop that, we'll leave you home!" I now say something like "If you don't stop that, you are the only one who won't get ice cream today!" Much better.