Yellow Means SLOW DOWN!

Gabe has learned the meaning of the traffic light colors. I was hoping to instill them early on so they could be used in behavior modification when we're in public places. The idea would be to call out the colors to control his behavior. "Red light!" to mean stop in your tracks, "Yellow light!" means slow the heck on down, and "Green light!" means to carry on.

So, as we drive, he calls out the traffic colors from the back seat. He says things like, "Red light STOP mommy!" He gets very excited about "green light go." He once admitted to me, after shouting it, that he very much liked "green light go." :-)

As we're on our way somewhere not too long ago, I approached a green traffic light that I knew was a particularly long red light. It turned yellow as I approached and I hear my son confidently state his knowledge from the back seat, "Yellow means slow down."

I really didn't want to sit through that long red light, so I punched it. From the back, Gabe starts yelling, "Yellow means slow down! Yellow means SLOW DOWN, Mommy!" I think I disappointed him...

My son, the two-year-old backseat driver.