Terrible Twos

We have a door at the top of our basement stairs. The rule is that the door must remain closed so the twins do not take a tumble down the stairs. Dannan, our two year old, knows how to open the door however his grouchies make him temporarily forget how to operate the door handle. The other day, he knocked on the door.... ok it is more like he was banging on the door yelling that he wanted the door open so he could come upstairs. I stop what I was doing, walk over to the door and open it. He looks up at me with puffy eyes, tears rolling down his cheeks, his mouth curled in a frown, his hand still in a fist from pounding on the closed door and what does he say?

"I DON'T WANT IT!!!!!!"

He turns around and proceeds to march right back down the stairs. Not wanting to give him any attention over it, I begin to close the door.

"NOOOOOO!!!!!!!"

He comes stomping back up the stairs crying like I did something that personally offended him. I asked him if he wanted to come upstairs or go down.

"I DON'T WANT IT!!!!"

Now it was time to give him his final options. "Do you want to go upstairs and go to bed for a nap because you are acting very sleepy or do you want to go downstairs and watch TV nicely?"

"I go watch TV nicely"

I think that was a good choice.