Tallman playing at the local playground. We sort of had an interesting experience. In his 12yo, approaching teen-ness, he decided he did not want to leave when we said we had to get home. In fact, he climbed to the top of the rock-climbing wall and nonchalantly sat there as we prepared to leave. We gave him several warnings, loaded into the van, drove by the playground entrance and waited a couple of minutes--still on the wall. Well. So we left him there and drove home. (Relax, this wasn't child abuse, we live maybe a 10-15 minute walk away.) We decided to let him fret a few minutes and exercise himself to get home. Fortunately for him, a friend of mine was leaving the playground and saw him there, and offered him a ride home, but I guess he did experience a few minutes of "Hey, I didn't really think they'd do that!" LOL Parenting is not for wimps. :-)