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today's parenting note
Two notes, actually.
First, let us record for posterity that yesterday, a federal holiday, my three-year-old committed no misbehavior and almost no backchat and earned no time-outs. (Times-out.) I'm as baffled as you are and not yet ready to believe he has turned any type of corner, although the last time I did have to give him The Look - Sunday evening when he managed to ignore, disobey, and talk back to his father all in one motion and Himself started to stomp and roar but I was closer and got right in his little face with the eyebrows up and the voice all the way down - he shaped up in record time. So maybe he's starting to do a little if-then exercising in his head. Wouldn't be unwelcome.
Second, we are working on his dressing and undressing skills. (He can remove shoes, hats, jackets, mittens, scarves, socks, pants, and short-sleeved shirts by himself and sometimes needs a hand with long-sleeved shirts. He can put on pants and shirts with a little help and knows how to put on his own jacket in that upside-down flip-over way but prefers to have it held up so he can put his arms in it; he can usually do the zipper. Most other things are still beyond him right now - socks, shoes, mittens he's not quite coordinated enough to handle on his own, and even putting his hat on is tough because -a- he can't see what he's doing and -b- his hair is so slippery it doesn't work if it's not lined up exactly right.) So after he picks his jammies, instead of my getting him ready for bed, he undresses himself while I get his nighttime diaper assembled. (It involves a special long-lasting diaper plus an extra liner layer because the kid pees overnight like it's his job.) The instruction is "pants off dance off!" which - and I don't know why I find this so hilarious, but I do - after all these weeks and weeks he still pronounces "pants off pants off!"
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First, let us record for posterity that yesterday, a federal holiday, my three-year-old committed no misbehavior and almost no backchat and earned no time-outs. (Times-out.) I'm as baffled as you are and not yet ready to believe he has turned any type of corner, although the last time I did have to give him The Look - Sunday evening when he managed to ignore, disobey, and talk back to his father all in one motion and Himself started to stomp and roar but I was closer and got right in his little face with the eyebrows up and the voice all the way down - he shaped up in record time. So maybe he's starting to do a little if-then exercising in his head. Wouldn't be unwelcome.
Second, we are working on his dressing and undressing skills. (He can remove shoes, hats, jackets, mittens, scarves, socks, pants, and short-sleeved shirts by himself and sometimes needs a hand with long-sleeved shirts. He can put on pants and shirts with a little help and knows how to put on his own jacket in that upside-down flip-over way but prefers to have it held up so he can put his arms in it; he can usually do the zipper. Most other things are still beyond him right now - socks, shoes, mittens he's not quite coordinated enough to handle on his own, and even putting his hat on is tough because -a- he can't see what he's doing and -b- his hair is so slippery it doesn't work if it's not lined up exactly right.) So after he picks his jammies, instead of my getting him ready for bed, he undresses himself while I get his nighttime diaper assembled. (It involves a special long-lasting diaper plus an extra liner layer because the kid pees overnight like it's his job.) The instruction is "pants off dance off!" which - and I don't know why I find this so hilarious, but I do - after all these weeks and weeks he still pronounces "pants off pants off!"
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