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Yesterday I collected my son (5 years old) from a party at a local play centre. His eyes welled-up as I approached him.
“What’s wrong?” I asked.
“I didn’t want to go yet,” he cried.
I told him, “well OK, go and have one slide down.”
Immediately his face burst into joy and he ran off laughing.
“..but we’re leaving as soon as you do one slide!” I called after him.
“Alright,” he shouted, pausing to look back, “but I’m not going down any slide so I won’t be back for a while!”
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