Puppets and piano practice, part 2

Piano practice has been going generally very well ever since Friedel and Thusnelda took over. Each time, I try to think up new games and play strategies as a fun introduction to the lesson. 

One that we've been doing the last couple of times involves Friedel and Thusnelda having to get past J to the piano, whereby he beats them off with martial arts moves and the help of other animals. 

This worked extremely well today—at first. J actually requested *extra piano practice* so that he could play the game more times. But then something unfortunate happened. When one of the piggies finally did succeed in getting past the defense, J became quite angry. 

Now, according to my puppetry philosophy, which I explain in my essay, all the puppets have their own personalities and dignity. So J doesn't get to have it all his way all the time. This was one of those times. The piggies felt that they had gotten past J's defenses quite fairly, and that it is unfair of J to expect to win every time. However, right now this has only made J angrier, and he told us he never wants to play the game again, and at the moment I'm writing this he is off muttering to himself in another room—in German, by the way! 

So it's an end to piano practice today. But I'm hoping that in the bigger picture the piano practice, the puppetry, and J's social development in general is better served by enforcing these kinds of rules. 

Update: half an hour later J is calm. He explained to Friedel and Thusnelda that their move—one piggy catapulting the other over the Christmas tree—was not good because they could have knocked off and broken an ornament. They agreed and said they would not do that again. In turn, they asked him if it was ok if they won once in awhile without J getting angry. He agreed.