off!” The morning has deteriorated into a yelling match as Mom and Dad try to wrestle the bunny grass away. They have a strong sense of how foolish this all is. Jack is angry and getting more furious by the moment. Exasperated, the parents offer some ineffectual consequence as a “compromise” in which the bunny grass ends up in a “time-out” and is put in the cupboard. Later in the day, while his parents are away, Jack talks his babysitter into letting him scatter the grass all over the house. “Sure, Mom lets me do it,” he tells her.
