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mai 13, 2005
Hello, Welcome, and Murphy's Law
Yes, I have begun a blog...not sure how it'll go but I'm going to give it a whirl. Thanks for the support I have already received, LOL! The following was my first official blog entry...I started with "Blogger" because I was in a desperate state and was waiting on my acct. from atlblogs:
"Murphy's Law"
Hi everyone! I thought this might be theraputic so I've created my blog. Today was a particularily rough one and I wanted to blow off some toddler induced steam. My little girl (Madeleine) is 21 months old. She's usually a really great kid, but today was hard. Even though I had a headache, I decided to take her to her favorite park. It's super cool, in Will's Park in Alpharetta. We had a blast. So we get in the car to go home, I give her her milk, and I expect her to fall asleep peacefully. Not so much. She SCREAMS the entire way home, a 30 min. drive. I have no idea why. So is this a willful thing, a I don't like my carseat anymore thing, a I've got sun in my eyes thing, I don't know. I'm wondering what do you do at that point. I can't give her a time out in the car, and I'm not about to pullover in the traffic. I'm not sure what I can expect from her at this age, and how to communicate that mommie has a headache and that I might lose it and get dragged away by child and family services if she doesn't stop. I mean how do you discipline in this instance, I don't want to be too leanient but I don't want to damage the poor kid and cause her to have to create a theraputic blog herself the second she can reach the keyboard. And to boot, usually these sorts of things happen when you're trying to do something especially nice for them, like the time when she was a baby and I made her fresh homemade baby food...she wouldn't even give me the satisfaction of letting the spoon within an inch of her lips. I guess it's Murphy's Law. I HATE Murphy, whoever he is.
Update, another Ode to Murphy:
Proof that Murphy's Law can afflict anyone...Yesterday Mike had the impluse to fix quesidellas (yeah, I know, but I speak French, not Spanish). He really likes them, but he mostly wanted to make them for Maddie because we've recently discovered her love for Mexican food, particularily salsa (mostly because she loves to dip, the only thing she loves more is honey mustard, again the dipping, which, given the choice, she would trade me for). Anyway...so Mike's all excited. He's got the chicken, the cheese, the americanized tortillas, and he really did make quite good quesideias, Maddie, wasn't impressed. She was lovin' the salsa and to say the child double dips is an understatement, but she wasn't a fan of the quesideiallloas. Murphy...gotta love him.
Posted by carriec at mai 13, 2005 02:48 AM
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last summer it seemed like josiah started those temper tantrums and at first I was ready to nip them in the bud--spank. But I realized that most of the time he was giving me these tantrums he was either extremely tired or hungry.But even though I was racked with guilt spanking him, it helped me determine the threshold. There's just nothing right about spanking when your very young child has no ability to think or reason cuz thier blood sugar is low or their brain is fuzzy and tired. As Jos has gotten older he has moments of extreme willfulness about almost everything. That's where spanking comes in, for me. If/when I'm in that scenerio I just talk to Josiah and tell him that, "this is the way things are" in a calm voice. You have to be in your carseat, I know you're tired, Drink your milk-you'll feel better and we'll be home soon, Calm down, calm down. Because after all, aren't we the ones that determine 'the way things are' for them? We decide what they eat, when they sleep, and how they behave. Ironically, this also tests our patience, love and consistency. I'll talk to Josiah in the same voice then as I would if he wasn't freaking out. Kicking the seat, throwing things, no that would make me pull over, and believe me I have.
Fun to read your blog Carrie and we cant wait to possibly live closer to you guys!
Posted by: katiek at mai 13, 2005 07:28 PM
Thanks for the advice Katie! I think once she gets just a little more verbally proficient it will get much better. I have found it helps to try to get her to settle down and then get her to look me in the eye and then say very calmly and very clearly "what do you want, need, etc.?" Mike and I did this in the car the other day after she'd been crying for maybe 5 min. and she settled down long enough to squeeze out a very clear "Food." Mike and I about died laughing b/c we didn't even know she knew that word! Your girl is beautiful btw!!! Congrats =)
Posted by: carriec at mai 14, 2005 02:57 AM