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A toddler’s definition of a fight
By bigpumpkin | March 19, 2007
“I want to bathe in the bath tub.”
“No, we are having a quick shower because we need to hurry.”
“No, I want to bathe in the bath tub.”
“No, take your clothes off now. Hurry. We need to go soon. Hurry. We’ll have a shower in the bath tub, OK?”
“NO, I WANT TO BATHE IN THE BATH TUB!!!”
“WILL YOU GET YOUR CLOTHES OFF NOW BEFORE I LEAVE YOU AT HOME!!!”
“We are fighting, Mummy!” *giggles*
Infuriated and shocked at the same time, I said calmly, “No…..we are not fighting. We are just disagreeing. Can you say that? Dis…a…gree….ing.”
“Disa…ghee….ying”
“Yes, that’s right. We are not fighting. We are disagreeing.”
Later, at dinner out at a local kid friendly restaurant, I yell out for T to STOP climbing the wooden fence barrier meant to enclose kids and with legs perched on the 2nd horizontal bar balancing her hands on the fence, she sniggers, “We are disagheeying again, Mummy!” smiling away.
And so the journey of disagheements begin……..
Topics: The Pumpkin life, Small Pumpkin, Simply Motherhood |
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