Wow...I have vowed that my incredibly head strong and willful 2 year old will NOT defeat me (or at least he won't know that he has). To him, I will always have the upper hand but I gotta admit that over the course of the past few weeks there have been a few days that I think he has the upper hand. I never knew what this parenting roller coaster would be like and boy am I finding out! Dane and I have a love / hate relationship right now...there really isn't a middle ground. He either clings to me and is all about mommy or he is telling me "no, I not do that". I realize that this is the age where they feel the need to prove their independence and Dane is definitely trying to establish his power in the house. Two is an incredibly fun and funny stage, but the tantrums are in the ridiculous category and the not listening is just flat out annoying. I feel like a broken record. every. day. of. my. life. I have noticed that the age of 2 seems to be very bipolar in nature...he can be so adorable one minute with his "I wub you mommy" and so cute with Kale, pulling him in his walker to the window to show him the rain. The next minute WHAM!! my sweet child has disappeared and a strange screaming monster has replaced him. Don't get me wrong, we see the adorable and sweet much more than we see the evil monster but the evil monster is very much a wear-you-out kind of creature!
Dane has been in a toddler bed now for a couple weeks and that is going very well. He's only climbed out twice...once to get an animal to sleep with and the other time he slept in late that morning and just wasn't tired.
Any advice you would like to give me would be greatly appreciated, but please PLEASE do not say "just wait til he's 3...it's even worse" - I have heard it enough and just want to live in my little bubble believing that 3 will be easier!
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Oh girl, I just want for you to know that YOU ARE NOT ALONE!!! Ellie has hit her stride a little early and is doing very similar things. Yep, no middle ground here either.... she is either happy-happy OR grumpy-grumpy! My advice: DON'T listen to the people who say that three is harder. I think that every single child has behavior issues that come and go in waves.... just when you think that you can't take it anymore, they will let you up for air! Aaron was VERY, VERY hard at this stage, but there have been so many awesome stages since (even when he was THREE! GASP!) :)
Some of the principles in these books won't all apply yet, but I HIGHLY recommend, "Boundaries with Children" and "Have a New Kid By Friday." Those are my favorite, go-to parenting books!
Again, you aren't alone, and your consistency with him WILL pay off!!! :)
By the way, THANKS SO MUCH for your comment about my blog yesterday; your encouragement meant so much to me!!!
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