oh, dear methuselah!
Reverse psychology actually works on my three year old!!
The insights into baseline human nature that looking after a toddler gives is not only frustrating, but frightening. The natural instict towards opposition and rebellion is truly one I’ve never understood. But suddenly when she thought she was doing something I didn’t want her too (“Flower, DON’T eat your toast!”), she did exactly what I wanted her to. . . but only so long as it was the very thing that she actually wanted to do, but didn’t want to do it if I wanted her to do it!
Sometimes I just feel like, why did I struggle all those years to get through my own childhood/adolescence to become a fully mentally and socially functioning grown up, only to turn and walk straight back into the midst of the irrationality of the phase I worked so hard to leave.?! Do I have to wait another 20 years to find sanity, only to find I’m too late to do anything with it?
I think I need some grown up company.
Tags: development, Flower