Aidan, when you are good you are soooooo good, but when you're bad you're soooooo bad. There's a few things that drive mommy and daddy nuts when it comes to your behaviour and that is how you never listen when we ask you to do something. That is especially true when we ask you to do something that you don't want to do- like turning the channel when you're watching your cartoons. You start throwing a huge tantrum and then it is usually followed by you making hitting motions toward us and the odd time even lunging at us to bite us in the face. Everything that we do has to be planned strategically. So with the TV thing we have to give you fair warning when we are about to turn it off. I usually tell you that the show that you are watching is the last show for the day and after that we will be doing something else. I then ask you if you understood that it would be your last show and you usually nod in agreement. Then we give you the remote to get you to turn off the TV so that you have something to do with it instead of us just shutting the TV off.
I'm still working on how to figure out the right disciplinary method for other things that you do.
Today, while you were playing in the basement you made a mess. You kept saying how you had to tidy up so you grabbed one of your toy vacuums and started moving it around the room. However, the vacuum toy makes a very noisy sound so I told you to stop. I told you that Kendall was sleeping and that you had to vacuum another time. But you didn't listen to me so I scolded you. Then you threw your vacuum dangerously close to where Kendall's bassinet was and started crying hysterically. That was when I lost it. I told you to go to time out and you didn't so I spanked you. You lunged at me and hit me back and that made me lose it even more. I made you sit in a corner for 15 minutes until you calmed down. You always seem to be sorry and promise me that you will listen to me and not hit, but it never happens. I know it's ironic that I tell you not to hit me when I'm spanking you, but I have tried the opposite (of no hitting and just reasoning with you) and that didn't work. I don't know what to do with you…
I don't want to end this post in a sour mood. I leave you with a much more cheerful video that I took earlier today of you watching the Olympic swimming matches. Maybe you'll be my future Michael Phelps?
I also found this video below of a P&G commercial dedicated to moms of Olympic athletes. It brought tears to my eyes.
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