Since he was old enough to dawdle, my son's been a dawdler...he takes his time to do EVERYTHING, he really marches to the beat of his own drum, and I can do nothing about it. It is ingrained in his personality! At times, it's just so maddening...like in the morning, when I am in a rush to get out of the house to go to work, my son will insist on taking his time to eat his breakfast, get dressed, etc. I have learned to simply compensate by allowing more time for him in the morning. He simply cannot be rushed.
But this morning, I had a great idea for my dawdling son this morning...he's currently into Superheroes, and all weekend called himself SuperMaxwell (not his real name). So, today, I tried to get him excited to speed up his morning routine by encouraging him to use his "superpowers" to "fly" down the stairs to get dressed for the day. I cheered him on, and he quickly got into it, he started yelling, "I am SuperMax and I will fly down the stairs!" Then he starts....one stair, PAUSE, then the other, PAUSE, and the other, very slowly and carefully, holding on the handrail as he is always instructed, one foot at a time, painstakingly slow! Still he was so excited that he was "flying" down the stairs and kept yelling "here I come Mommy!" "I'm FLYING!" In the meantime I am fidgeting, like, "oh, just c'mon already!" When he FINALLY got to the bottom step (practically 5 minutes later, but seriously, it must have been about 3 minutes later) he was SO excited that he "flew" down the stairs. At that point I could not help but laugh out loud -- he was so careful to remember to walk down the stairs with care as he is always instructed to do, and of course, in his own time as usual. So much for speeding up his morning routine, LOL!
So, has this ever happened to you? You try to come up with a clever way to teach your LO something and it backfires, leaving you in stitches? Please share!
Tee hee! I am glad everyone got a laugh out of my post! My same son, this weekend....as he is laying in his bed, refusing to take midday nap, I threaten, "if you don't take your nap you will get a time out." To which he responds, "Then can I get a time out? I wanna time out!"
He never did take that nap! LOL! Ahh, life is never boring with children in the house!
I don't have any stories that top this - just wanted you to know it made my day and reminded me of how literal kids will interpret things....like always remembering to walk down the stairs - in his mind he was flying....very cute. Thx.
LOL, thats cute.
So, something backfired on me today. I figured I'd be hearing the cry of all cry, but no......
My 3 yo son has (or should say "had") a Lightening McQueen push and ride car that he bashes into everything - wall , toys, chairs. It infuriates me. My 10 mo is in his bouncy structure and Owen bashes into his a couple of times. Baby whimpers a bit. "Owen stop, or I'll throw Lightening McQueen away." - Something I have threatened before. He does it again. I grab LMQ and walk Owen outside to the garbage and throw it away. He says "Bye-Bye Lightning McQueen." Waves, giggles, and runs back in the house totally unaffected!
Oh well..... Bye bye LMQ.
my teaching method isnt clever but it has backfired. my 17mnth old knows we do not yell and scream to get our way, and if he does (tantrums) he gets a time out till he can calm down. one day he had been especially loud all day and i had had enough. i turn to him and yell "enough! do you need a time out!" he tilts his head as if thinking about gives me a concerned little look and says "do you?" i couldnt help laughing
Or when you tell your kids to not talk with food in your mouth and then you put a bite into your's and the next thing you see is the milk being knocked over on the table and you go "Oh NO!!!" and both the kids look at ya and say "MOM!!! No talking with food in your mouth!" Hahaha.
Gotta love them! Thanks for the good laugh.
I commonly have relatives and friends try to use reverse psychology on my 4 year old to get her to do something or not to do something. They never listen to me when I try to tell them that reverse psychology does not work on her and they have to try for themselves because they think they have the magic touch. It's just funny when they realize it doesn't work too well with her. It always worked well when I was little and my mom wanted me to clean up my toys, etc. She would tell me not to touch my toys and to leave them right there on the floor and then I would get busy picking things up.
I've always taught my son to think for himself and question even those in authority if he feels something is wrong....and MAN, has THAT backfired on me! LOL
HAhahah... ... that is funny! One time I told my boys then 5 and 4 to stop running in the house. A few minutes later I checked in on them and they are running in "slow motion"!! :)
Well, not my kid, but I used to watch my then 3 year old little (1/2, different mom, same dad) brother almost every day... His mom had a REALLY foul mouth, and my dad had only recently gotten custody of him. So we had all been working to clean up his little mouth. My fiance and I took him to the park near my house, and while we were there a swing broke while he was sitting on it. (seriously? the seat just snapped in half. It wasn't even a little kid swing, and he isn't that big of a guy!) So on the way back home, my brother was riding his bike a few feet ahead of us, in his own little world (or so I thought) so I turned to my fiance and said (using my quiet voice, even!) 'I can't believe that f***ing swing broke!' Little Brother stops his bike, turns around, and says "CHRISTINA! You can't say F***, it's a bad word." then starts peddling his happy way home. LOL!
Question the Rules with Respect for the Rulemaker!
Uh yeah, right, and who's the biggest rule maker in a child's life?
Like I didn't see THAT comin'!
Psssh, so much for Intellectual Parenting!!
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Love it!!! I feel like I have dozens! My fav is I used soap on my nephew for dropping and F-bomb & he said "mmmm can I have some for if I say f*** again?" I feel like I ALWAYS end up cracking up when Im really trying to get onto my son.If thats the worst thing we do as parents... oh well!
