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Our Little Miss has developed the strangest phobia I have yet come across. Currently she is living in terror that the toilet in going to run out of water.
Each time she is going to the toilet she needs to be reassured that it does indeed have water in it, hasn’t run dry and nor will […]
Discovering that the plane ride itself is dull from a toddler’s perspective - but that the airport travellator rocks like there is no tomorrow!
A safari at the open range zoo is pretty cool. Not because of the exotic animals or seeing them up close, these are too be ignored, but because you get to […]
I am not sure if it is the result of questionable parentage or just questionable parenting but I am quietly convinced that our two children are not actually sisters.
They are almost diametrically opposed when it comes to their personalities. The eldest is shy and reserved, cerebral in her approach to everything, and prone to emotional […]
Please somebody save me - I think the toddler Little Miss has got me sussed out (worked out for us older generation) and it can’t be long before she passes on these vital insights to the baby.
My authority has spent most of the weekend being undermined by everyone around me.
I was expecting it to happen […]
As an elder sibling one thing that really gave me the sh*ts when I was growing up was how my little brother would carry on as if he was being shot if I so much as looked at him sideways. He’d be sitting there in the lounge room begging me for mercy or to stop […]
Read They learn young how to torment. »As an elder sibling one thing that really gave me the sh*ts when I was growing up was how my little brother would carry on as if he was being shot if I so much as looked at him sideways. He’d be sitting there in the lounge room begging me for mercy or to stop hitting him or whatever it was her thought would get me sent to my room so he could have the TV all to himself -it mattered not a jot that I was on the other side of the room minding my own business (most of the time).
To him it was just a way of getting square with his bigger, stronger, and let’s face it far handsomer elder brother, given he knew he was out matched in almost every other way he resorted to a sort of guerrilla campaign against me. For me it just meant getting yelled out and being punished for doing nothing more than existing.
Watching the current interaction between Usurper and Little Miss I am beginning to wonder whether my little brother was actually an evil shite or it is just the way younger siblings even up the playing field. I have noticed even at a delicate age that the baby will start crying and hollering as if under attack even if the toddler is miles away minding her own business (do not take this indicate even in the slightest that the toddler is innocent even 1 time in 20 - generally she is a guilty as sin). But my point is that Usurper has already worked out that if she cries then the toddler will get blamed - and she plays up to it!
As I have said though it is not that Little Miss is innocent - she seems to be a bit annoyed that Usurper is actually able to move around / sit up under her own steam these days and is hell bent on tipping her over at every opportunity. Her other favorite game is to work out where the baby is headed and then standing in her way, blocking her movements. Every time the baby changes course to accommodate where the toddler is now standing, the toddler moves to block it’s new course.
This leads to a mexican stand off with the baby’s head banging against the toddlers shins, the baby hollering and crying in frustration and the toddler complaining that Usurper is attacking her.
As for me I try not to get involved in these disputes, until it turns physical and one of them is in mortal danger. Then I tend to pick the baby up and turn it around and try and distract the toddler with a shiny object or a stupid dance.
All I keep thinking though is if they are like this now, just how bad will it be in 13 years time?
