I have a very happy one year old that I get frustrated with a few thousand times a day because along with being happy he is enormously stubborn. If he hears the word "no" or recognizes that he is being corrected he lowers his head, furrows his brow and holds out a stiff arm with his five fingers spread. You could say, "No, bud, you are the best kid ever" and since he heard the word "no" he would get into brow-furrowing, hand-stopping, heal-digging opposition. And every day I think, "Is there anyone more stubborn than this kid in the world???"
Step in me. I have been trying to teach my four year old to read over the last year. Every day we sit down and do lessons and every day he fights against it. He doesn't like it. He hates it. And I make him do it anyway. He tries and he struggles and I struggle to get him through it. We're both miserable about it. But we do it everyday. I really don't know that I've done the right thing here in pushing on and on through the resistance, I just keep going because I decided we were going to do this and I can be pig-headedly stubborn. So forgive me one-year old child for any blame I give you for being stubborn - because I think you involuntarily inherited the trait from your ridiculous Mama.
Heaven help my children.
2 comments:
I have a REALLY stubborn guy at my house too. It's a good thing he's cute, and I often tell myself it's okay because Jessica is stubborn and she still turned out great.
Ha! Just encourage him to one day be merciful to his children!
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