I swear this will be my last blog entry regarding the fact that my daughter remains smugly settled into her terrible two-ness.\u00a0 But, I have to rant just one more time about it.\u00a0 I mentioned yesterday that my son had fall break.\u00a0 It was hard.\u00a0 I started to speak louder and louder to them toward the end of our last day.\u00a0 I had that wierd Steven Colbert look on my face – you know the wide-eyed one where he looks like he could go psycho-homicidal at any moment?\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 That one.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I was laying it on my son pretty thick.\u00a0 “You’re older!\u00a0 Set an example!”\u00a0– I was mad at him, not her.\u00a0\u00a0I was reaming him for everything she did – I was blaming him for the lack of balance in our\u00a0home yesterday..\u00a0 How is that fair?\u00a0 She was the one that was going around flipping over the dog’s water bowl and pulling her brother’s hair.\u00a0 He was just trying to read a book.\u00a0 He was just trying to build legos.\u00a0 He screamed at her because she very premeditatively ripped the drawing he had been working on for an hour.\u00a0 Yet, he’s the one that got sent to his room.\u00a0<\/p>\n
God.\u00a0 Can you smell the guilt on me this morning.\u00a0 I have tried to wash it off, but it is sticking to me like a bad night of drinking brown liquor – I’ll be tasting it ALL<\/strong> damn day.\u00a0 Guilt. Guilt. Guilt.\u00a0 The most useless, yet somehow one of the most prevailing traits of motherhood.<\/p>\n I can remember my older brother getting laid into by my parents for every little thing that went wrong in our house.\u00a0 Even if I did it – he got in trouble for not preventing<\/em> me from doing it.\u00a0 Somehow the eldest gets the baggage of “setting an example” – how lame is that?\u00a0 They are kids too.\u00a0 How did I fall into the trap of making him as responsible as an adult in our home?\u00a0 Shame on me.<\/p>\n Nothing left to do now but change.\u00a0 And sooth my guilt by feeding my son lots of cake and ice cream tonight.\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 Ice cream makes everything better.\u00a0<\/p>\n And, as far as the adorable little hell raiser that my daughter has become – she’s in for a serious change.\u00a0 I have made – god, I almost can’t say it – a time out corner.\u00a0 It’s a bleak wooden chair sitting in the corner of the living room.\u00a0 Two minute time ous for her.\u00a0 She won’t like it but, it’s time.\u00a0 And, there’s always ice cream to ease my guilt if she takes it too hard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I swear this will be my last blog entry regarding the fact that my daughter remains smugly settled into her terrible two-ness.\u00a0 But, I have to rant just one more time about it.\u00a0 I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-behavior-issues","category-parenting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}