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shaz on Tuesday, April 04, 2006 at 09:28 PM
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.Kids are possessive… as everyone knows… with everything… and I do mean ‘everything’!
My older 2 are always battling over a toy, or a book, or spoons, or bags, or packaging material… pretty much anything! But lately, they’ve added the baby to the list!
The eldest one really loves to play with the baby… I guess that since he already knows what its like to have a younger sibling, he does not have any jealousy with this new one. The ‘almost 2 year old’ is a bit threatened by the newborn, and usually stays away from him…
So yesterday, the ‘almost 2 year old’ was playing with the newborn and my eldest says to him “Go away, he is MINE! You don’t even like him!”… And so started yet another fight!
I have used the “timeout” method so many times that it really doesn’t even work anymore! Now I just take away the object in question, tell them its “MINE”, and let them cry about it for a while…is that bad parenting?
Everything really is ‘mine’…
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shaz on Sunday, April 02, 2006 at 09:25 PM
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Toddlers are odd little beings…I think that this age group is the most unpredictable…
My almost 2 year old was having a fit of crying and screaming today during his nap… he was loud and inconsolable…and he was still asleep.
Back when I only had the 1 kid and still had the time, energy, and desire to read those ‘give-me-advice-for-my-kid’ books, I thought that it was pretty odd when they described the toddler nightmare. Only in toddler-hood does this happen…and there is really nothing that you can do for them…just sit there and look at them till the show is over!
Meanwhile the older one woke up and told me that his brother was crying…like we should look into it…then 5 mins later (the toddler is still crying)…he wakes up again and asks me “why” his brother is crying…well if ‘anyone’ knows the answer, and more importantly…how to get them to stop, I think that they deserve a medal! (and please let me know what the secret is!!)
Its now 11:04pm (or 10:04pm according to yesterday’s time), and the kids are in our bed hugging my husband…they still not asleep (although my husband is) …does daylight “savings” time really save anyone time?
Maybe he was crying because he was upset and confused about the whole changing time thing…
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shaz on Thursday, March 30, 2006 at 09:23 PM
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Eenie Meenie Mynee Mo; which kid… attention… should I show…
Kids respond really well to routines, and it actually helps keeps parents sane as well. I have managed to get the older 2 kids into a bit of a routine now, which is nice… its no longer a battle to get them to eat or to sleep etc, they just know what “time” it is.
But, the not-so-great part about it is that my routine really does not allow me any one on one time with any of them. In the past few days I am finding myself going through an internal struggle… which kids deserves my attention the most… The eldest one can speak and understand and remember every detail of every event… he’s starting school soon, and is the most impressionable at the moment… does it mean that he should get most of my attention?
The baby has little memory, does not understand much, and can’t complain in a language that I can understand… should I not hold him unless he’s feeding or crying…
The middle one, who is fast approaching the dreaded “terrible twos”, is hard to manage at this stage in his development… craving attention, always seems like he’s left out… we refer to him as the drama queen… can I really focus on him, with the special needs of a newborn, and the demands of a preschooler…
At least my husband is relatively low maintenance!
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shaz on Saturday, March 25, 2006 at 09:21 PM
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mom of a few.
stressed out mom.It took us 5 hours to get home… the kids watched a movie, slept, then got up on the one stop we made to eat lunch and stretch, then they slept again until we got home… At least that is how I honestly thought the ride would be…
They took turns crying…
They could not agree on what to watch… (we don’t normally have a tv in our van, and I am opposed to this idea, but this was a rented van… so I let then watch… The eldest one wanted it off when he was sleepy, and the middle one wanted to watch care bears!)
They didn’t want to eat lunch…
They slept for about 10 mins each… (and at different times)
The could not agree on what songs they wanted either…
And when I say ”they could not agree”, I really mean that ”they could not stop SCREAMING until we stopped the thing”!
They fell asleep just 5 minutes before we got home, at 5:30PM… Started crying as we took them into the house… We gave them milk and thought that they would sleep…
9:30PM… kids laughing and running around the room…
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shaz on Thursday, March 23, 2006 at 09:20 PM
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We are leaving the foreign land tomorrow… I cannot wait!
Now, my husband and I have developed a sinus infection… Making the situation that much worse! But, on the other hand, I think that at least 2 of my kids have returned…
The middle one is still acting up alot… Every 5 minutes during the night he wakes up and comes into our bed and then cries because he does not have enough space… My sister was right when she said that kids are just not very smart!
Can’t live with them… can’t give them sedatives!
At least he’s cute, otherwise I might be tempted to give him back…
