Carson's Deal

This morning before school Carson was particularly bad. He was pretending to hit (sometimes not just pretending) everyone, and was flat out just being a punk. I told him after school he would not be playing with his friends (kids in the neighborhood play and ride bikes for hours every night). So, after school once everything settled, just Cars and I sit down to talk about what happened this morning. I asked him what happened and he said that he was really bad. I asked him why he was so bad. What things did we need to work together on to make things better the next day. No joke, this is what he tells me. "Well mom...I made a deal with Caden. When I was in the shower I told him that if I got in trouble today, that I could punch him in the face. And he said deal. So I did!" Then he just looks at me like duh mom, that's it in a nutshell. It seriously took everything I had not to bust out laughing. I had to sit there forever and then when I did start talking, I had to stop three times because I couldn't resist laughing if I didn't stop. Finally, after about a minute of silence and him looking at me like, "hello mom...talk!" I finally said, "Carson, you are not to make any deals with Caden unless I am present. Deal?" He said sure and he was up and off to do his chores. Seriously??? I will pretend that Caden misunderstood him when he made that deal with Carson.