A stubborn girl

Sheri's personality is emerging everyday. As each day passes, she is becoming a more independent person with a mind of her own. Inevitably, this poses a new set of challenges as far as discipline is concerned.
Last week, mommy had a very unpleasant encounter with Sheri. It happened on one of the evenings when mommy was just resting on the sofa after dinner while daddy was still having his dinner at the dinning table. As all of you know by now, our little girl is an avid reader. She never fails to come to us with a book in her hand everyday, sometimes at the most inconvenient time. However, she has a bad habit of throwing the book at us at times and the book can hit us really hard as picture books are usually made of thick card boards. When she was much younger, we just gave her warnings and we usually do not pursue the matter further since she might be too young to realize her mistake. Nowadays, mommy feel that we should not condone her bad habit. So, when she threw the book at me when I was sitting at the sofa on that evening, I was very upset by her behaviour and wanted her to apologize immediately for her action. However, she refused to do so and started crying, hoping that mommy would give in to her this time.
Even though it pains me to see our little girl crying her hearts out, I know that I have to be firm with her in times like this that she is clearly trying to push her limits. I looked at her in her eyes and told her repeatedly that mommy would not read the book to her until she apologized. However, she refused to look at me directly, which clearly shows that she knew that she had done something wrong. Daddy who witnessed the whole affair also came to lend support to mommy, sending a clear and consistent message to our little girl that it's time we put an end to her bad habit of throwing books. It took her quite awhile for our little girl to say,'I'm sorry, mama', but she finally said it and I fulfilled my promise of reading the book to her. Looking back, I'm glad that I stood firm at that moment as our little girl does not throw the book at us from that day onwards. Mommy hopes that she will keep up her good behaviour.