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New tactics:
- After using bathroom if I pull her underwear up she pulls them back down - and then back up.
- After using bathroom if I flush toilet (on accident) she screams bloody murder that I did it for her and re-flushes causing toilet troubles.
- I attempt to get her something on a high shelf in the bathroom. She insists on getting out of the tub, going to the kitchen, getting a chair, pushing it the full length of the house to the bathroom, getting it herself, getting back in tub.
- I try to help her find the hole for her head in her shirt, she insists on trying to shove her head into the arm hole. Correction not accepted.
- Her spouse goes to the store to grab milk. She takes it, returns it, buys it again herself.
- He pays the bills. She stops payment on all the checks/cancels all the transactions on line, and does it again herself.
- Artificial insemination. She is not letting someone else get her pregnant. Not happening. Troy will be okay with this.
Noah now does his homework in the truck in the driveway. He thinks by not coming in the house he gets "more play time". Not sure about that reasoning, but it certainly allows him a quieter environment to do his homework.
Phoebe and Lydia ate 6 packets of stale instant oatmeal today.
SO ... the eat down - still on.
12 comments:
Everytime I read/hear about LB's tactics, I think of the book "If you Give a Mouse a Cookie." Maybe she read it to herself and was brainwashed into this self-reliant thinking?? Just don't let her read "If you give a moose a muffin" :)
SO funny! I can relate. My first two were crazy strong willed like that! I just about stopped at two :)
I love the eat down idea. Sometimes we get creative meals out of necessity...but we've never done an actual eat down. may have to try it.
"After using bathroom if I pull her underwear up she pulls them back down - and then back up.
I try to help her find the hole for her head in her shirt, she insists on trying to shove her head into the arm hole. Correction not accepted. "
This child lives at my house, only it's the male model. Let's talk arranged marriage.
Blessings,
Sandwich
I have a 3 yr old who does the EXACT same things. Drives me nuts.
She INSISTS on buckling her own carseat straps, and then, 90% of the time gets so flustered with twisted straps (or what-have-you) that she ends up in a complete meltdown begging for help.
This morning, I carried her breakfast plate to the table as she was kind of babbling behind me.... Apparently she was saying SHE wanted to take her plate to the table, and I didn't understand her. TOTAL HYSTERICS. "*I* wanted to take my plate to the table!!!"
Someday they'll learn, right? RIGHT?!? :)
I finally polished and posted my rough draft from some time ago written in support your inspiring efforts in Haiti. http://mamadrama-timestwo.blogspot.com/2010/10/hey-wanna-build-hospital.html
I just have to tell you how much I love your writing, Tara. All of it - the funny, the deep, the inspirational. Your blog is the only one I follow faithfully, even though I have never met you. You have an amazing gift and you are using it well.
Praying for you and your family,
Ellen
LOL, LOL, LOL!!!!
Thanks for sharing!
Tanja from the netherlands
We actually had the head in arm hole incident this morning. Jude turned 3 in August and is slowly outgrowing the tantrums. This morning he just stood there screaming because his head wouldn't fit, but he would not let me help.
Keep us posted on the meals that come from the eat down! We do this all too often, but I'm running out of ideas for the end of the month!
What about a step stool in the bathroom?
My son is in the same phase. Heaven forbid I carry him 3 steps down the hall. Screaming ensues. He walks back tot the staring point and does it himself. I'm learning to let it go.. .cause the more he sees it doesn't bother me... the less he does it! (and I get to baby him a littl emore.)
We have a little step stool for teeth brushing, but it does not allow her to be tall enough to get her own washcloth/towel from the bathroom cabinet. Her butt pushing a chair down the hallway is pretty cute though. Yesterday I walked into the bathroom when she was in the tub and gave her a horrified look when she said, "WHAT? - I just shaving." Thankfully the razor was in her hand and dragging across her leg with the blade facing up. You know what the ONLY think she lets me do for her is? Total bunk ... she allows me to wipe her butt. She will not do that herself. There is something unjust about that.
Oh Tara. I love it. I bet you get this a lot, but I'll say it again! You need to write a book. Seriously. :D
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