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Children are often able to play one parent off another, and Rowan Francis Henchy is a pro! During a recent visit to Jimmy Kimmel Live!, actress and author Brooke Shields, 43, revealed just one example of how her 6-year-old daughter selectively conveys information to dad Chris Henchy. Brooke had gotten Rowan set up to do some stamping, with one explicit instruction. “I said, ‘Whatever you do, just don’t [stamp] the counter,’” Brooke recalled. “She looked at me, slid [the paper] over, took a stamp and just [purposefully stamped] right on the counter.”
“I became like super human strength. I whipped her up off that chair so fast, and I didn’t know what to do with her because I wanted to throw her somewhere. I was like, ugh, I couldn’t put her in the bedroom because that’s not a good place for timeout, it’s too fun, so I put her in the bathroom and closed the door.”
Brooke then told her daughter that when she was ready to talk about what she’d done, she could come out. What she had momentarily forgotten, however, was that the bathroom was in the midst of a renovation so everything inside was covered in plastic. “It was like American Psycho, or like Dexter…It was literally like I put the baby in, like, a crime scene,” she joked. “All of a sudden she’s screaming, ‘I want to get out! I want to get out!’ and I’m saying, ‘You can’t come out until you’re ready to talk about what you did.’” Disaster then struck when Rowan accidentally locked herself in.
“I couldn’t get in, and so now she’s terrified. She’s in there, she’s locked in the plastic crazy person room, and she’s screaming. I tell her, ’You’re not in trouble any more, whatever you just did, do it again.’ Finally she figured out how to unlock the door. She comes running out and I hug her, I said, ‘You’re not in trouble anymore, I love you, lets go through the whole house and learn about locks.’ It became like an education.”
Or so Brooke thought!
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