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Dog days of August

I haven't been blogging as much as usual lately. This is mostly because I can only tell so many stories of how Luke is getting into trouble these days without making you all think badly of me (how many times does he have to pour the dish soap on the steps before she puts it under the sink, anyway!).

So I will tell you the story told by one of my friends who has survived the toddlerhood of a boy: when she went in to work on Monday, she said that she hadn't gotten anything done that weekend except keep her son from getting hurt. That was challenging enough.

I will also add something from The Emotional Life of the Toddler by Alicia F. Lieberman (quite a helpful book actually):
Home observations of mothers and their preschoolers show that mild to moderate conflicts take place once every three minutes, and major conflicts occur at the rate of three per hour. The younger the child, the more frequent these disturbances.
hmm, I think I'll read that book again.
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Lenise said…
Oh, thank heavens!! You're allowed a few extras with three, right? We left the mall three times today- the third one stuck 'cuz it was past naptime anyway. Isaac is showing us what the "terrible twos" are all about. Jay waited until he turned 3 to get an attitude. I feel like Isaac is starting to get the idea that calm and polite attracts more flies or however that saying goes...
August 26, 2008 at 11:13 PM
mathmom said…
Luke's problem is that he is hard to correct, and keeps going back to things I've determined are off limits. So each confrontation multiplies to 4 or 5 or more confrontations, whereas the girls are old enough that if they don't obey the first (or second =) time I can just send them to their room.
August 29, 2008 at 8:48 PM
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