"You don't have be so fussy....."

So said my son last night. Last night my son directly disobeyed something he was told to do. It started out as just being grounded from his Nintendo DS - then he started being real mouthy and disrespectful. The punishment changed.

At the end of our night, he came to me, (I naively thought he was going to admit he did wrong and apologize..what was I thinking?) and said, "Well, you don't have to be so fussy all the time."