Poor badly done to child

I think it is good to let CyclopsJnr go where he wants to on our bike rides.  It doesn't matter to me and it hopefully gives him a sense of empowerment to offset the day-to-day toddler frustrations of Meany Mummy making him do stuff.  Today our bike ride took us in a surprise different direction - not east to the park as usual, but west to the shop.  

CyclopsJnr wanted to look in the shop window, and there at the front we saw the CBeebies comics.  Octonauts!  he shouted in excitement.  Tinky Winky!  Andy!  But I had no money on me as I don't generally need any on a bike ride.  Oh he was so disappointed.  Obviously he needs to learn he can't have everything he wants so maybe it is character building, but actually I would have quite happily bought him a wee comic.

So then he was in a bit of a huff and needed a lot of persuasion to leave the shop doorway and head home.  Unfortunately the shop is at the expected mid-point of the outing, as far as I wanted to go, so the journey home was a minor battle of wills.  Luckily we bumped into our neighbour and their dog which cheered things up enough to get us back!