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October 09, 2006
Why do I have to be the mom all the time?
Sometimes it's hard. Lately - maybe since preschool started? - Ethan just wants nothing but to be with me. Mostly he wants to stay home and play games. Friday he didn't want to go to preschool, but I got him to go by saying I'd pick him up, too. So I both drove him and picked him up, and then after lunch we played backgammon while Mya got Linna to sleep. So we got some time. Then Saturday I decided to just spend almost the whole day just with him. Most of the day we played board games. Then Ethan was supposed to go to Home Depot with Jeff so I could garden, but he decided to garden with me instead. That was fine, fun in fact. Linna was unusually fussy and refusing to sleep, which made the evening difficult, but we finished nicely with a 'campfire' outside. Then bedtime - Ethan was difficult again.
Sunday he also wanted to play all day with me and only me. I needed to go buy groceries, so after lunch I was trying to hurry him through Acquire, and he resisted with all his might. He dawdles on his turn, makes the pieces fly up in the air, starts to cry and scream when I do something not quite the way he wants. Finally I had to just stop and tell him it wasn't fun anymore, which didn't go over very well, let me tell you. I was frustrated, he was frustrated, and Jeff was frustrated trying to distract him. I was in the bedroom trying to get Linna to sleep (ugh! impossible), and I heard Ethan crying again about something. Taking off his shoes.
At that point I decided I needed to just offer some love and stop fighting him. So I asked him to nap with me, and we had nana in the bed. Read a few chapters of our current book, the third Boxcar Children. He calmed down.
But still, I worry. (That's my job.) I worry that he isn't getting enough attention and time. I worry that I don't have enough energy to give him any more. He will probably be scarred for life.
Posted by ktingey at October 9, 2006 06:25 PM
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