I’ve recently been despairing at one of T’s latest antics: drinking water, only to collect it all in his mouth then spurt it out over the floor, himself and anything else in firing range. Is he identifying as a hosepipe?

The crafty little monster! It’s one thing taking an open cup and pouring it out, or occasionally lobbing it across the floor. That can to some extent be avoided with a closed cup. But he’s thwarting that solution with this new tomfoolery.

Lid or no lid, there’s nothing to stop him! Well, we could just not give him water (or anything else to drink), but that would be just a little extreme*.

So, all we can do is ask/tell him not to be a toddling water feature and hope he complies.

But today he switched it up and made even that a challenge. Having set off his little fountain, rather than stand there giggling, he immediately grabbed a tea towel, and started wiping up the puddle.

Now what does this oneanddad do? Tell him off? Too late, he’s already cleaning up his mess. I can’t tell him off for that…. we could use this skill in the future for clearing up gravy! Not tell him off? He’s a human ‘Hozelock’ and that’s definitely not endorsable behaviour.

Any ideas?! 🤷‍♂️

*We will not be cutting off T’s water supply for obvious reasons!