"As soon as Davy got back from lunch with Mary he went right to Ted and Georgette.
"Mom," he said, "Dad got a minute?"
"Sure," Georgette said.
"What's up kiddo," Ted asked.
"I'm sorry I was a bad person," Davey said, "I was thinking only about myself and-"
"Davey," Georgette said, "You are not a bad person. You're a kid. There is a difference between being a child and being a bad person"
"Will you guys ever love me again," Davey asked.
"Love you again? We never stopped loving you in the first place," Ted said, "Doing something wrong doesn't mean that we stop loving you"
"And in a way," Georgette said, "It's our fault too. We spoiled you."
"How?"
"We gave you the impression that you could do whatever you wanted WHENEVER you wanted," Georgette explained, "You're a kid and you didn't really understand how it works. From now on we're not going to do that anymore"
"Does that mean I can never get my way," Davey asked.
"No of course it doesn't," Ted said, "It means that you can get your way when you are being reasonable. But for example you can no longer stay up till 3 in the morning. You can no longer eat potato chips as breakfast"
"What about his allowance," Georgette asked Ted.
They had recently tripled his allowance because he wanted it to be tripled.
"He had that already," Ted said, "We're not going to take that away from him. But from now on you ask," he told Davey, "You don't demand. From now on you talk you don't talk down and from now on you go on family visits. Your grandmother misses you very much and she doesn't have much time left. AFTER the visit then we can do something you want to do and when the baby gets older you two will take turns deciding"
"Okay dad," Davey said.
"Just one more thing," Ted told Davey, "NOTHING is going to change my love for you or your mothers for that matter"