Walking on the road

A couple weeks ago Julia got spanked TWICE within a couple days of each other because she ran away from me to go walk on the road by herself. Jerrod and I explained multiple times to her why she was not allowed to walk on the road and how she could get seriously hurt if she did.

After that weekend, she seemed to get the hint and was much better about holding our hand when close to the road.

Now she constantly tells us that "bad kids walk on the road" and how "they need to hold their mommy's hand". We never told her "bad kids" walk on the road, just that she was not allowed to walk on the road without holding mommy's or daddy's hand. Somehow she equated that to only bad kids walk on the road without their mommy. She especially says this when she sees some kids walking down the road. It is just too funny to hear!

She was/is fascinated with walking on the road because our road does not have sidewalks, so any Julia and I walk anywhere, we have to walk on the road until we get to a main street. Luckily, she now knows she has to hold our hand our stay in the stroller when close to the road.