Monday, January 30, 2012

Shabbos Kodesh

CS (2) is at the stage where he always asks me for crayons or music on Shabbos. My classic answer is that we can't color or turn on music because it is "Shabbos Kodesh". (I won't stop him from coloring if he finds a crayon on the floor or plays with a toy musical intrument, but I won't give them to him on shabbos.) I then try suggest a fun activity that we can do.

His latest, is repeating that phrase to me when he doesn't want to do something. For example:
ME: It's time to go to sleep
CS: Not time to go to sleep
ME: Why not?
CS: Shabbos Kodesh!

Or

ME: CS, it's time to come out of the bath now.
CS: No, not time to come out bath now
ME: Why not?
CS: It's Shabbos Kodesh!

The funny thing is that no matter what day of the week or if the action is permissible on shabbos, if he doesn't want to do it at the moment he will say so and give the reason that it's Shabbos Kodesh and he can't.

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