Sunday, October 18, 2009

Terrible 'not even' Two

When Life as a mummy wrote about the Terrible-Twos stage about a month ago, I commented telling her how lucky she was to only start experiencing this stage when her son Ryan turned two.

Hayley started the terrible twos even before she turned two. In fact it started when she was 19 months old! She is now 20 months old and its getting really unbearable. Our babysitter often comments that baby girls are always ahead in everything during the early stages, I guess this is why the nightmare came early.

Here are some of the things that she does which makes us go bananas:
  1. pouring water out from her bottle onto everywhere, tables, chairs, sofas, cushions etc
  2. spitting water out from her mouth
  3. playing with her saliva
  4. disobeying instructions on purpose - ie testing the limits, touching things she knows she cannot touch and repeating the same action even after we said no
  5. shouting loudly be it in public or at home, especially when she's looking for either one of us
  6. the more you call for her, the further she will run from you
  7. no longer afraid of getting flicked or caned

Papa was just commenting today that no wonder there are abuse cases. When kids are at their worst, they can be so terrible that parents or caretakers will sometimes loose their senses. A simple advise for parent wannabes, please make sure you are ready for the challenges and responsibilities before starting a family. This is not an easy game and there are no reset or end button. It's a game that you will have to play for at least 25 years!

We wonder how some parents can manage 2, 3 or 4 kids at the same time. We salute them! We are both so tired running after 1.

Apart from the stubborness and terrible behaviours, Hayley was also cutting her molars. My poor girl. She was having flu (since Thurs till today) and fever (on Thurs night) and was really cranky and attached. Her papa can't bathe her, can't take her to the toilet, can't feed her and can't even sleep next to her. Everything has to be MUMMY! Mummy can't even go to the toilet in peace :-(

We hope this stage will pass very very soon. Can Dibo please grant me a wish? :-)

2 comments:

Leona said...

Will telling you... "you are not alone" make you feel better?

I guess every parent needs to endure this stage. It did make me feel better after talking with other people who have children... and when they share their stories of their children with me...then I feel 'Okay la.. all children also drive their parents up the wall!'

I had a terrible time with my Ryan during his terrible two stage.. a lot of screaming and yelling. Come to think of it... i am still yelling and screaming at him!! :)

Kiasu Mom said...

Hahaha, yes I will surely feel better knowing I am not alone. In fact I knew it from day 1, just needed to express it to get it out of my system.