“Daddy! Pwobwem!” (interpretation: Father, I feel the urge to bring an issue to light)
“What’s the problem Hun?”
“Everything is no-no.” (interpretation: It seems to me that I am denied access to virtually everything I express interest in)

Did my two-year old daughter just call me out to a Come To Jesus Meeting?
Outside of a suppressed smile, I honestly did not have an answer to give her. She looked hilarious. She was serious, there was no hint of a smile, her stance was wide, her arms were folded, she was ready for an argument. Her posture, along with her classic scowl did nothing to help me suppress my laughter. I was thinking, “Well, if you weren’t such a gremlin, then I would likely allow you to have better access to things. But you changed the text size on my computer, then you hid the mouse. You play with garbage, you scribble on Lyd’s crayon drawing as she’s making the drawing! You push you slap, you kick, you disobey—blatantly.
Now here you are acting like you are suffering oppression because I won’t let you play with the power strip. To you, “No” is a mere suggestion the first fourteen times I say it. I have only recently managed to get you to stop when I say it.
You are a strong-willed little girl. It ought to to get you places. But everything has a price. And that strong will is going to earn you some enemies.
Watching it now, through the unfiltered brain of a toddler is a little terrifying.
Despite the strong will, and the bold and possibly brave move to bring this grievance to me, you’re still my funny girl.
I think my greatest challenge with you will be to break your attitude without breaking your spirit.
To somehow get through all that pluck, and still manage to raise someone who is just as strong-willed as ever, but who is also kind and generous.
So, no…I will not laugh at your tiny body, folded arms and cute-as-a button scowl. I will not laugh at your “Pwobwems” (at least not to your face) because all things are relative. A toddler being forbidden from playing with a power strip is just as big a problem to you as paying the utility bill that makes that power strip useful is to me.
I promise, I will not laugh, always always always come to me with your pwobwems, I mean…problems.