Our house regularly echoes with her desperate plea: 'I'll me do iiiiiiiiiit!' (utilising all possible pronouns - and her multi-functional black 'teps - in her quest for self-determination).
I find this stage so exciting - she's courageous, confident and oh so proud of herself when she completes a task to her (very exacting) satisfaction.
But it's a tough one too.
Sunday is having to learn one of the hardest lessons of her life: the world won't always work the way she wants it to.
Even as an adult this pisses me off, so I can only imagine how frustrating it must be for a 2 year old.
Actually I don't really have to imagine, I'm witnessing it nearly daily at the moment and, as always with this parenting gig, am often the meanie who's refusing to let her open the hot oven, use a teaspoon amount of toothpaste, wash her hair in the dog's bowl or ride in the front seat of the car.
Maybe the crux of the so-called 'terrible two's' (yukky phrase) is having to work out the complexities of context. Sometimes its totally okay, indeed encouraged, to be independent, self-sufficient and involved - sometimes it's okay to use knives and glasses - but other times (and suspiciously when you most want to), it's not allowed.
Why is that?
Whhhhyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?
I'm known at my home as meanie mommy! My response, yes, I am mean. According to the "Big Book of Being Mommy" it says, if you think I'm mean,I must be doing a super job.
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