With only four days until my scheduled c-section, of course my 15 month old daughter would start throwing fits! Why not!?! Just recently, she has started pushing buttons, literally, on everything she can get her hands on: cable box, tvs, remotes, cell phones, and laptops. Now, she has always liked to play with these things, but she has taken it to a whole new level! She will push the button on the cable box as many times as she can before you get to her, all the while, looking at you and smiling. We tell her no, we bop her hand, and I even made her sit in "time out" on my lap for 1 minute while she was wiggling and screaming. She pretends to cry, but as soon as you put her down, she instantly turns it off.
Another new thing that she has recently started is trying to plop herself down when you try to walk her out of a room or away from something she isn't supposed to have. The other night, Brian tried to take her sippy cup away from her because we don't let her carry milk around the living room and she was fighting him and pulling on it as hard as she could. Brian just stood there in shock. I made him take it from her because she had this big grin on her face like she was saying, "Ha, Ha...I won!"
How do they learn this stuff? Do kids instinctively know to put their butts out and throw themselves on the ground when they want their way? What do you do with a child who is too young to reason with you?
I'm sure that she senses the changes and everything going on. Mommy hasn't exactly been herself lately and I feel badly about that, but we can't let her get away with whatever she wants! Boy oh boy...the next few weeks are going to be fun!
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