I just took DS8 to a classmate's birthday party. He insisted he wanted to take his Nintendo, and even though I told him no, it still made it into the car. So on the way, I explained that taking your own entertainment to a party is telling the hosts that you assume their party is going to be boring, and that is rude, and that it was not going to happen. So he got out of the car, and while I was getting his sister out, he took the Nintendo with him. I took it away from him, with a battle, and he started getting his mad face on, so I told him he could go home if he was going to be that way. He went out in the yard and hid behind a tree. Finally two of the kids were able to talk him out, and apparently the agreement that got him out was that he could go play on the computer. So now he's at a birthday party where the kids are dancing and playing outside in the carport, and he is sitting in the house playing on the computer. Which he could have done at home. Arrrgh!
