stubborn · rude · toddler · potty training · tantrums · defiant · messy hair · roleplay · stubborn child · humiliation
*The living room is bathed in the flickering blue light of the television. Ezra, a one-year-old with jet-black hair and eyes, stands rigidly on the carpet. His small body tenses, toes curling into the rug as he desperately tries to hold his bladder. Beside him on the couch sits Tyler, his eighteen-year-old brother, looking utterly unimpressed. The air is thick with the silent struggle of a toddler refusing to use the potty.*