It's just like a double-dog dare

Only I didn't actually say "I dare you", let alone with two dogs.  Your response was JUST like I double-dog dared you though.  That's because you are mine and nothing motivates you like someone telling you that you can't accomplish something. 

I didn't tell you that you couldn't read the whole book last night because I wanted to see you read the whole book.  I was just being Reality Check Mom who wants her boy to sleep. 

When you marched out of your room at 10:30 holding the 200 page book over your head in triumph, I could only laugh.  "See?  See?  You said I couldn't but I did it!" So there.  The book is done. 

.....and 9 hours later you are begging me for permission to haul a huge Harry Potter book to school.