We've been home for a few days now and I can tell you that my lil baby is no longer a baby anymore! He is more independent now and is starting to communicate with us much better. He is starting to say more words but his nonverbal language has improved dramatically. He is still stubborn (like his daddy of course) but he is really coming into his own with his personality. It is really neat to watch him interact with others and he is definitely a "ham" like me. He loves to be the center of attention(like me of course). When we were on vacation, we went to Joe's Crab Shack for dinner. During the meal, the music came on and the servers began to dance. Hayden LOVES music so he got up and started dancing around the restaurant (with me in toe of course). He loved the spot light. I couldn't get him to sit down and talked the server into keeping the strobe light going for him to dance in when they were through. He makes me laugh on a daily basis. He loves to burp, which may or maynot be a good thing in public, and watch our reaction. He even tries to fake burp which usually gets a laugh out of me.
I'm just always worried that I am not giving him the tools he needs to be successful. So many questions unanswered about where he should be developmentally. All I want for him is to be happy, healthy and successful in whatever it is he has a passion for in this life. I never want him to settle. I want him to prosper. I am also worried, am I raising him up to be a crusader for Christ? How inadequate I feel sometimes in this area. After all, God did give me this child to raise up to do great things for him. I always look at it as he is on "loan" from God. How lucky do I feel that he chose me to do this great work? VERY LUCKY is the answer. For this season of the terrible twos shall one day pass and on the other side I will hopefully have a happy, vibrant, thriving child. I am learning discipline as a trial by fire sorta ordeal. Brooks is great with disciplining Hayden because they are just a like. I wasn't a stubborn child so I have no idea how to correct this behavior. He, of course, has figured this out a long time ago and tries me every chance he gets. With the whining and temper tantrums episodes, I've figured out because I can write a book on how to effectively do those. For those are the two things that I did best as a child. So what do we do you ask?? Simply, ignore him. He hates to be ignored like I do. Works everytime. When he throws a tantrum, I simply walk away and he will stop knowing he's not getting anywhere. Sounds cruel when you write it out but it works.
I have to break him of this habit before he is 30 years old, like me, and still trying the shenanigans. :)
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