I am glad he is almost two and the SIDS rules don't apply. Still no pillow but no lie 5 train blankets! He usually just sleeps on top of them since he wears a sleep sack, but he wants them all, and a few books.
I was that mom today at Target with those kids. So they each received $5 from their grandma for Valentines day, a little early, but we went to go buy a little toy. All were doing really well, they would ask for something, if it was over $5 I would tell them to put it back, they would with no fuss. Getting along well, staying close being respectful. Then I go to check out and all hell breaks loose. It starts with my toddler crying, and me putting back the bag of treats he picked up from the dollar section I was going to buy with his money. He was acting really bad started throwing things out of the cart when I wouldn't open them because I had to pay for them first. So I hand them to the lady and say "I am not getting those anymore", so he is crying. Then my daughter, and son get into a fight about pokemon cards, and my other son runs off to the drinking fountain. He claims he asked me, but I swear he didn't. The cashier did the lovely "looks like you got your hands full" comment, and I said "yes I do they are awful right now, not sure what happened." They usually are pretty good at the store, something I can feel pretty smug about, smug enough that they saw I needed to eat some humble pie! They went to their rooms when we got home, and I am reminded of the joys of the terrible twos that I get to do all over, yipee! So yeah my FFC is that I was that lady at the store that people look at and are like, dude get your shit together!
AND rather than judging you I would be giving you props for applying consequences to their actions. He was msibehaving, so you took away one of his treats. You weren't rushing to open packages that you hadn't paid for just to appease him. So I would have been watching that exchange thinking what a good mom you are!
sagen There would be no stink eye here either. Good parenting isn't always pretty. Better to fight the ugly battles in the short-term and have well-behaved kids for the long haul. Sounds like you handled it really well.
sagen this has been me more than once. Most recently was yesterday day picking up DDS birthday cake. She flipped her lid because I wouldn't let her carry it. Thus we left in a hot crying mess. Awsome
Post by crimsonandclover on Feb 1, 2015 14:27:06 GMT -5
sagen, remember my awful airport stories from about a month ago? When DD2 had a complete and total nuclear meltdown for 20 minutes waiting in line to board the plane, I didn't get a single evil stare even though the people HAD to be thinking "Dear Lord, please don't let me have to sit next to this family." I'm sorry you got side-eyes today, but normal people get it. I'm sure you handled it beautifully.
My FFFC - my BIL and his wife were over today and it was great. They're fun to talk to, we played a game while the DDs were napping, and then after dinner BIL asked whether I wanted them to stay and play another game. I said, "Not that I want to kick you out, but... well..." I would have loved to have played another game with them, but ladies, it's the FW, I'm hoping to O tomorrow (today is CD14), and so I told them to leave. Awesome SIL here. But they had lots of TTTC (she's 24w pregnant right now), so I'm sure they would understand if they knew the real reason I told them to leave
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