“Okay, Colum, it’s time to go now.”
“No. I’m not ready yet.”
“No, honey, I gave a warning and now it’s time to put the animals away and get our jacket on.”
“I won’t.”
A well-meaning woman with a toddler smiled.
“I guess it’s just those terrible twos.”
“Except he’s three.”
“Oh well, the tail end then.”
“He’s three and a half.
He just likes a battle of the wills. “
You wouldn’t have wanted to see him at two.