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Showdown
By ella | August 2, 2005
Eldest Son, Harry, is going through a phase. He is three and a half. It’s not a good age.
Having been - mostly - a very sweet, compliant toddler he has decided to become the toddler from hell. Yesterday was our worst day yet. He got up and decided he didn’t want to get dressed, he didn’t want cereal or toast for breakfast he wanted Thomas the Tank Engine chocolate, he didn’t want to watch children’s TV, his DVDs or any of the videos he has but he wanted to watch them all, no none of them, no this one, no none of them, no all of them. Then he decided he wanted to go to nursery because he couldn’t stand to be in the same room as me, but then he didn’t want to go at all today because he is three and what a three year old wants a three year old gets. He cried. He was naughty. Then he cried some more. And all this before eight o’clock. In the morning. The rest of the day was no better. By bedtime he was refusing to go to bed, screaming at me over the monitor when I went downstairs that he needed “one more little chat” before he went to bed, after forty minutes spent settling him, pottying him, settling him again, pottying him again ad infinitum. So I gave up and on the verge of throwing up (for I am still suffering moderate nausea) went downstairs to lie down. He was not happy about that.
I almost hoped he was sick. But no, he was fine. Just being three.
My battle with morning sickness is making things in the house less than pleasant I’ll admit, but I try to be patient. Yesterday I thought I might as well lock myself in the bathroom and sit with my head over the toilet bowl for all the good I was doing as a parent (at least in Harry’s eyes).
Today he is better. Would it be too much to hope that it was a short phase, culminating in yesterday’s showdown?
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