Wednesday, February 4, 2009

I wanna do it!

Right now our kid is in this fiercely independent phase. It's driving us absolutely batty.

He won't let us do anything for him. So, even mundane tasks take forever. For instance: he's potty-training now but he has turn on the light, turn on the fan, position his little stool in front of the toilet, take his clothes off, climb on the toilet, etc. He even wants to wipe himself (that always turns out badly). All these thing would take me less than a minute if he would let me help him. Instead, even though he only sat on the pot for a minute, we spent 10 minutes in the bathroom.

I can even tolerate (reluctantly) the tantrums and shrieking but this "Let me do it!" phase has got to stop.

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