Finally the boy is napping. Lately he has been putting up alot of behaviours which is deemed unacceptable by me.
Rejecting his food that are warm be it milk or rice cereals or porridge. He wants to eat adult food now, rice and noodle and meat and vege and all but not his baby food.
Don't want to go into the bathtub. Puts up a fight, a struggle so hard sometimes I nearly fall backwards carrying him. Guessed the only way is to dump his butt into the bathtub and let him play with the sponge.
Fighting sleep, refuses to take his nap when put inside the bouncing bassinet. Then, as you guessed it, a few slaps to the legs and some loud shoutings at him, some sniffles or some cry out "Murder!!", followed by a ter-menung boy who is still sniffing away like he got abused, finally falls asleep just like that in two minutes.
*sigh*
Guess number 1 and 2 really pisses me off big time.
Number 1 because I am so worried that this thin little boy of mine is not getting enough nutrition. He is just at the right weight of 10.5kg and from the past few days of him not eating, I am scared that he will shed those weight away just like that. So now, I try to make up by giving him milk that are of not so warm temperature, bread for snacks (he seems to like to eat bread..) and sometimes rice and soup from my lunch or dinner.
Number 3 is because only when he sleeps, there is some peace and serenity around to make me sane enough to want to move my butt and cook or do some housework like ironing Hubby's workshirts in my mother's room, do laundry or just go and bathe, wash my hair or just plain 'business'.
Lately he has been ber-maharajalela-ing around, I am scared he assumes that he can act that way coz now, a little bit a little bit, he uses CRY to get his way. Usually that works with Hubby but with me, I choose to ignore him or scold him back. I am mean , am I not? There is no one else that is strict with him and I really don't want him to be one of those kids I wished to slap.. am I playing my role right I wonder?
3 comments:
hey em.. trust me.. you are doing the right thing.. even I wouldn't stand nonsense from Arianna.. even now she gets a smack on the leg and when she cries I leave her for about 10 minutes so that she knows what she did was wrong.. I know how you feel but us, as mothers, want our kids to turn out useful and well mannered beings.. not brats.. like those we see outside and feel like slapping so that they behave.. be string.. you ARE doing the right thing :)
it's never easy to be mum, huh?
I sure hope I am doing the right thing and may he not associate me to be the EVIL one in the family and go run to his father everytime he thinks he can get away with stuff. Maybe I should just whack both the SimonYaps to keep them in their place. LOL
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