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What is your parenting kryptonite?
By hissychick | April 23, 2009
There are many toddler and preschooler quirks that make the day just that bit harder to endure sans gin or valium.
Tantrums.
Whining.
Fighting.
Tattle taling.
The constant mess and never ending cleaning.
The selective deafness when it comes to completing the basic tasks that are essential to getting everyone out of the house (did someone say toothbrushing and/or putting shoes on? Ugh.)Constant interruptions.
Interrupted sleep topped off with six am starts to the day.
Management of bodily fluids.
And so on.
These all contribute to the almost permanent knot of tension at the base of my neck, but there is one thing that sends me right over the edge instantly and everytime, all calm and thoughtful parenting techniques replaced by the ugly impulses of the bogan fishwife harpie.
My name is hissychick, and my parenting kryptonite is screaming/shrieking.
For some reason there appears to be a fault in the volume control of miss A of late, who has decided that the best way to get my attention is to up the volume. I do not do being shouted at well*. Even better, E has decided to try this shriek thing on too, seeing as it sooo effective in eliciting a response out of Mummy. Never mind that it is a somewhat negative one, in which you can almost hear the few remaining functioning brain cells inside my head explode while said head rotates three sixty degrees and green slime oozes from my mouth.
However it’s not the angry shouting that is going to result in my premature demise, it’s the screaming as part of playing make believe. I cannot blame A as the instigator of this beyond horrible behaviour, rather it is one of her little friends that started the whole “quick! monsters are coming! let’s scream and run away game” that is currently in favour with the four year old set. Especially when it is being played inside where there are floorboards and the sound reverberates into your very soul.
The same friend who is coming over for a playdate tomorrow morning while her mother is at the doctors. The very friend that will keep doing it over and over again, oblivious to the requests of any adult to cease and desist.
I think I just vomited a little in my mouth at the thought of it all.
Anyway, dear internets**, please distract me by telling me about your own parenting kryptonite(s). I need to know I’m not the only one….
* We will not mention my recent yelling at A to stop yelling, wherein mr hissychick dissolved into fits of laughter. Ahem.
** I know it’s a bit rich asking you for comments when I haven’t been leaving many myself lately, but I promise to stop lurking and start posting. Once my ears stop ringing from the shrieking that is.
Topics: Going bogue, WWM 09, farking fours | 6 Comments »
Sorry? What was that? I can’t hear you over the game of screech chasey going on here.*sigh* I totally understand where you are coming from. I am a person who hates loud, sudden noise. I think IPODs are hell. Squeals of anything,even happiness are fingernails down a blackboard.
But my parenting Kryptonite is throwing plates of food at each other. I have to control myself from not forcibly rubbing their faces in it.
Posted by: Simone on April 23rd, 2009 at 4:43 pmOh god Simone, you and me both. I’m not a fan of food throwing, but it is nothing compared to the torture that is loud and sudden, or worse, loud and constant noise. Especially in stereo.
The crazy thing is that A has always, since birth, hated toys that make noise or her sister crying and so on. Yet she is happy to join in with this stupid squealing monster game.
And her friend is out of control. Period.
Pray for me tomorrow, and hope I don’t end up on the news…
Posted by: hissychick on April 23rd, 2009 at 7:46 pmMine is whining. We have a lot of whining here. So much so that the Monkey has been known to say “Mummy, LISTEN TO ME I AM WHINING”
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Posted by: Jenn on April 25th, 2009 at 10:52 amSilent treatment doesn’t work with kids!
I shout so loud I think the whole neighbourhood can hear me!
And my kid echoes me…..you know he is at the age of cause and effect learning….you can imagine the rest….
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Posted by: Ann on April 28th, 2009 at 12:09 pmMine’s here: A night-cryer
yyyyyaaaaAAAAAAwwwwwnnnnnnnnnn…..
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Posted by: JLow on April 29th, 2009 at 2:34 pmIt really drives me nuts when the boys bicker and tease each other, i.e.
1) the older one teasing and making the second one cry, just by saying things like, “You’ll have to stay in school for 2 days and not come home.” and
2) the second one would take a toy and turn a deaf ear to the brother when he is asking for a turn.
Both scenarios always ends with some yelling, crying while bouncing uncontrollably and a load of whining… And very often,the mommy yelling at them.
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Posted by: Moomykin on May 3rd, 2009 at 6:57 am