Alas but she is turning into the best toddler ever. She has some pre-terrible two moments but I can keep them under rein. She also has not had too much other children interaction and I find that she has benefited well from it. I know as she gets older she will need child interaction..I'm no idiot. But she is learning how to share, she is learning to do as she is told, and she is learning no means no. Whether it be a firm warning or a tap on the bum or hand she knows when we mean business. And we are by no means harsh or uber strict...she can almost do whatever she wants.
Within reason of course. She has definitely got her daddy wrapped around her finger...but even he had to crackdown on her the other day when she was doing something she was not supposed to. I came home from school and he sheepishly came up to me and said, "I had to give Willow a smack on the hand today." I smiled and said "oh why?" and he proceeded to tell me that as he was cleaning the apartment he was cleaning the kitty litter and Willow came over to play in it. Something she never does!!! LIKE EVER. He told me she gave a two second whine/cry and walked away but has not touched it since.
Kids are very smart. If they are allowed to grow and learn and thrive. I was discussing with another mom and she was telling me how she does what I do, talk to her child as if he were a person, not as if it's a mindless baby. Like for example "go get your bottle." rather than "go get your baba for mama." Nothing wrong with that. To each their own but I am just finding that Willow learns more when I talk to her straight up rather than baby talk to her.
But she could at least slow down in the growing up department.
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