Terrible? No. Talented, Yes.
Posted on 2008 under Domestic Issues, My Ozzy, Parenting, Uncategorized | 7 Comments17 Jun
I read in Milet’s blog that she prefers calling the stage “Talented Two” for terrible just sounds wrong. I agree if we keep on calling our child terrible or bad he will grow up living up to THAT name. So let’s not start them off with the wrong notion.
When my 23 month old son acts up, I always reprimand him with a calm but firm voice. When this fails I resort to glaring and high-pitched shrills. When THIS fails, I let him be. He would lie on the floor crying his lungs out calling out my name. Then after he’d realize I won’t pick him up then he’d come crawling to me.
These things worries me though; can I still call him ‘talented’ when he’s being ‘terrible’?
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