Count to Ten
I am severely lacking in patience today. Unfortunately a healthy warehouse store size portion of patience is required to parent a toddler. Or at least my toddler. I was not doing my best impression of a good mom today.
I slept like crap last night thanks to jackassery from my asshat neighbor. I don’t do well when I don’t get my sleep.
Bridget is just such a little raccoon lately. No matter what we do, she seems to have an uncanny knack for finding something she shouldn’t have, pausing just long enough to let you see that she has it, and then running off while laughing. Forget about packing the diaper bag - that’s best done when Raccoon Child is napping to avoid having the contents strewn across the house. We are having a big fight about keeping bottoms in chairs. Last night we found her standing on the kitchen table, doing her little Flashdance routine up there. We promptly put her in timeout but had to turn our backs to hide our laughter because, while horribly dangerous, it was stinkin’ cute. Today I found her crawling across the coffee table. That landed her another 90 seconds in timeout. I know she’s too young for timeout to have a lasting effect but she does seem to understand that she is being punished and it upsets her. Not that I want my child to be upset and cry but it is part of the disclipline process.
Sigh.
I hate that I spent so much time telling her no today. And it feels like I’m yelling at her, but if you don’t raise your voice with her and use a stern tone, she just laughs at you when try to discipline her. I’ve never seen a kid do that.
Sigh again.
I’m off to bed. Maybe a good night’s sleep, plus Mother’s Day Out tomorrow will restore my supply of patience.
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Flash dance routine? What a ham! I hope today is better for you.
As soon as my kid does something she knows she’s not supposed to, she looks at me, point her finger and says “no, not nice!” then laughs at me and says “i sit on the steps” (her timeout)
Yeah, um, how the hell do you discipline a kid who KNOWS she’s doing something wrong, and LIKES timeout?
This is a hard age; it really is.
We need medals. And wine. Lots of wine.
My kid also laughs when you raise her voice at her. The angrier I get, the funnier she thinks it is and I cannot win.
Flashdance is TOTALLY cute, though.
I bet the flashdance was totally a hoot!
Maybe trying the whole diversion technique…it might work with a two-year old. I just get rolling of eyes from my 13-year old! (Good times!)
I found the Commander in the middle of the dining room table this morning totally grooving to music in her head.
I hold up one finger, shake my head and say “no” -she has started to mimic me - I laughed so hard I almost cried - after I pulled her down and made her sit on her chair. She was a perfect little mimic “no, mama, no” with the finger raised and all…. it killed me.
Thanks, ladies. You made me laugh out loud. It’s good to know I’m not alone in Toddler Hell. Luckily Bridget is a peach 90% of the time and her cuteness far outweighs her trying moments.