I can’t believe it, but Little Miss has started to cut me off mid sentence with things like:
Toddlerdaddy: Little Miss it’s time for ………..
Little Miss: I know, I know, I know, I KNOW <while giving me the universal ‘talk to the hand’ gesture>.
Toddlerdaddy: Now Sweetie…
Little Miss: But, but, but, I’m just (insert whatever action she is currently doing - generally cooking pretend dinner, playing at a pretend park, or pretending to fix Baby Good - doll - with her doctor kit). I will be finished in a minute, IN A MINUTE!!
Toddlerdaddy: C’mon, time for bed….
Little Miss: But if I don’t give Baby Good her noodle (needle) she will be sick and die!
This leaves me with no where to go, I certainly don’t want the blood of Baby Good on my hands. I am depraved and cold hearted, and a lack of sleep isn’t making me any more compassionate, but even I have a heart.
As for the baby Usurper, I continue to grow ever more concerned that she is a serial killer in waiting. Nothing seems to cause her greater pleasure and lead to more uproarious baby laughter than the death of a spider, or the sight of her emotionally disintegrating parents that she has dragged to the brink of insanity through her total disregard for their sleep.
Of course I think she may also be trying to punish us for being bad parents. Late last night when she wasn’t sleeping I just let her roll around on the floor in her sleeping bag while I watched the soccer. She sure seemed happy, lying there under the coffee table trying to find out just how loudly and shrilly she could scream, a sound only punctuated by ever more psychotic shrieks of laughter.
She is indeed a worry…….
I don’t know which is worse, them responding with attitude or flat out ignoring their parents. My daughter chooses to ignore our “Let’s go to bed.” demands. And the shrills, are very mind piercing…good luck with that!
oooohhhhh…cutting you off in mid sentence! Hope it doesn’t get into a habit!!
Sigh…as for your little-less one! Maybe laughter is better than cries! Hysterical/cruel or not! Seems maybe she takes after you!
If I was carrying Caitlin & if I was talking to someone else, she’d grab my face, both hands on cheeks, turn my head to face her, just so she can tell me what she needs to interrupt me with…
Can be cute the first few times, but can also be rather rude if it becomes a habit.
Yours has just started the back talking?
Welcome to my world. We work with our children on doing what we say when we say it. It is a constant battle.
When Micah was about two, he would yell out, ” Everyone stop! stop! Let me talk.” Now he cuts off his nagging mom with, “okay, OKAY. I said Okay already!” That’s my 3 and half year old.
My two year old will yell, “Mommy. Mommy. No talk. No talk.” and shakes his head at you.
But honestly I must say they pick up lots of these stuff from the way the adults around them talk. Yikes!
The good thing about being the dad when the toddler refuses to go to bed is that if it gets desperate I can just big them up and carry them - brute force and ignorance is a valid parenting technique right?
Why must our kids do what we do and not just what we tell them to do?