i have to admit....

sometimes i'm a little sadistic. i love to see the look on a kid's face when they know that i've caught them being naughty and they're being punished. i don't enjoy it so much when i've got a kid that doesn't know why they're being punished, but when the kid knows they're wrong, and their cute little face shows all that remorse, i secretly go away to giggle at how cute it is.
today, i heard a loud noise and some crying from around the corner, so i looked and keisuke was crying and gou was just looking at the ground. i picked up keisuke and saw that he had a small cut on his face. i took him over to the sink to cuddle him and wash the cut. i knew that gou was responsible cuz he was just sitting there staring at the ground still. he hadn't moved.
so, chuckling to myself, i said "gou gou...come here" he wouldn't come, so i went and brought him over. i talked to him in english, then in japanese, playing like i didn't know who did it. he wouldn't answer, so i knew he was guilty. my new assistant, ari, was trying to get him to confess too, but he wouldn't.
when he wouldn't apologize, he had to spend some time in the corner. AND HE WAS SO CUTE. he knew exactly why he was in the corner, and his lil face was so full of shame. i couldn't leave him there for very long.
always when a kid is finished with their corner time, i give them a big hug to let them know that i still like them, i just don't like the bad thing that they did.
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