Jo had her first full-fledged prolonged public tantrum today at the mall. Actually, multiple tantrums. Basically it was an “I want” which was denied. A solid hour of screaming ensued. We touched on “I don’t want you as my mommy anymore”, but luckily skipped “I’m running away” and “I don’t love you”. <\/p>\n
It all ended up with Caroline getting a special trip to the store for a balloon (she was almost self-righteously a good girl) and Jo getting nothing but a spanking. The mean words don’t bother me that much, since I know she was just trying all her limited arsenal to get me to buy her the outfit. The insistence on having it her way NOW is what I worry about. I do not want to raise a spoiled child, and hopefully this will help to teach her the appropriate way of asking for things, and accepting that she’s not always going to get what she wants.<\/p>\n
I never guessed how rough the pleading would be.. “I’ll be the best little girl ever, I’ll do anything you want, please Mommy, don’t you love me?” Man, that stuff is hard to listen to. I know somewhere my own mom is up there laughing at me, cause I’m sure I pulled all that BS and worse.<\/p>\n
Tonight, after the storm, I explained to her that when she told me she didn’t want me to be her mommy that it upset me. That I had fights with my mommy too when I was little, but now she’s not around even to have fights with, and I miss her – just as much as Jo would miss me if I were gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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