“I dunno!” “Third base!”
I swear…. Sometimes I just get sooo frustrated with my two year old. We had to change the bedtime routine for the entire family because of her. I used to put her down first, then her big brother, then the baby…. Well, she would scream and yell and beat the wall (waking up the nieghbor’s kid), and carry on so much… and absolutly nothing I did could make it stop…. So the whole family schedule changed.
Now the baby, who is now a year old, gets put down first. then my DS5, who is such a sweetie pie… He doesn’t mind going to bed b4 his little sister, esp if it will make her be quiet! *S* then my DD2 goes down. Now this is working great. Everyone goes down without a fight, even the baby. There is only one problem.
My dd is no dummy. She knows dang well that the routine was changed because of her, despite mommy saying that we were just gonna try something new. So she has now decided that if she yells, screams, and carrys on long enough, eventually we will have to give in. So now that Bedtime is no longer a fight, she has begun to turn “quiet time” into one. And heaven forbid we tell her “NO” to anything. That temper comes out like you wouldn’t believe. Think of the biggest DIVA you know, IE: Mariah Carey, Whitney Housten, etc…. Yup…. that’s my baby girl… a true DIVA.
So far, I am not backing down during the day, either when we tell her no, or at quiet time. But so far, the neighbor hasn’t complained about my child’s loud temper during the day either. Yup. I live in a townhouse, and my neighbor was complaining about hearing my child, and my child waking up hers. Although in my heart, I don’t believe my neighbor would ever call Social Services on me just for my kid’s temper… I know she has called on other people in the neighborhood, and it’s a real threat to my own comfort. I just can’t wait til we get a house, far enough away from the next door neighbor, that I don’t have to worry about how loud and long my child decides to throw her fit.