I'm beginning to realize just how stubborn I must be to my husband through my daughters. My girls are stubborn beyond belief. They wail to get their way for things when I wish they'd just do what Daddy and I want them to do. This morning, it took E twenty minutes to take a sip of milk. 20 minutes! For just a sip! L is constantly saying she NEEDS something, or that she doesn't want to go somewhere, or that she won't do whatever it is I ask of her. Drives me INSANE.
If there's anything having children has taught me, it's how to pretend like I still have patience when it has totally run out and then some. I wonder sometimes if I'm doing something wrong with them, but more than anything I think they are just. like. me. Someone said to me when I was young that they hoped I'd be cursed with children just like myself. At the time, I thought "hey, that'd be cool!" Now, though I know exactly what my girls are thinking, it doesn't help a lick to get past their stubbornness because I know pretty much how long and how far they are willing to take it!
Somebody invent a do-whatever-my-parents-say-willingly pill PLEASE.
Thought these same exact things, time and time again! I was a HORRIBLE toddler, and Olivia has a lot of those same traits. Most days, I cannot hide my impatience.
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