All Entries Tagged With: "toddler"
I think they’re working.
Timeouts, that is. Or maybe it’s just the combination of focusing on lowering my stress level, his new language explosion (even if it’s still in a super secret language that only I can understand), and him finally getting old enough to understand, if only a little bit, that there can be consequences to his actions.
I [...]
My little caveman
Kendall likes to hit himself… in the face, and sometimes he follows that up by bashing his head against the wall, doors, floor, etc. I especially love how after he freaks the fuck out on himself he looks at me, as if to say, “See what YOU made me dooooo!!” Yes, it is totally my [...]
Back to the Future
A couple weeks ago my friend Barb (one of the founders and owners of Metroplex Baby and Kids) called me with a proposition. She was helping a local news producer find someone to give up the internet, entirely, for a week, and she thought I’d be “perfect” for it. I had to laugh a little. [...]
A little insight on “those parents”
You know, *those* parents? The ones with the kid on the plane that everyone is annoyed by? Yeah… that would be us last Sunday. It was absolutely us.
Scott has some business to take care of this week back in our old stomping grounds, so we took off on a 2.5 hour flight to DC from [...]
Ceiling fan’s got nothing on testy toddlers
I started taking Kendall to Gymboree classes when he was 3 months old. I willingly jumped into the…uhhh… stimulating, looks like Crayola puked all over it, world of clowns and bubbles, and songs about clowns and bubbles, when I realized that I pretty much sucked at entertaining my immobile infant. He just laid there and [...]
The age of defiance is upon us
And, frankly, I don’t know what to do. He’s 14 months old. In many respects he still seems like a baby. In many others he seems like he’s one step away from snatching the keys to the car from my hand and flying out the door before I even have time to shout, “don’t do [...]
Top Ten Reasons my Toddler is Like a Dog
10. He smells
9. He’s always dirty
8. He will eat anything off the floor
7. He slobbers
6. I am forever cleaning up his shit
5. He pooped in the backyard yesterday (result of some naked time at the sand and water table)
4. I can’t sleep with him in the same bed without getting a butt in my face [...]
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