A Disobedient Toddler Is a “Demon-Child” and “Rasputin in Footie Jammies”
Your demon-child responds to this by saying to herself, “Ha!
In Douglas Wilson’s own words: 1 quote from 2018, from Why Children Matter, cited to the source.
The other kind of fail, and frankly the far more common one, is when you deliver the occasional and very inconsistent wumph on top of the diapers. What happens is you just moved your kid six inches, and that is the only thing that happened. Your demon-child responds to this by saying to herself, “Ha! I defy you and all your pitiful attempts at intimidating the queen of the world!”