Friday, March 24, 2006
Battle time
Over the last few weeks our little drama queen has been getting more and more bullheaded. Her “timeouts” over the last two weeks exceeds the number she received in the previous six months. This morning I decided to bring the big guns to bear on the issue and I think Pierce and Nora suffered some collateral damage from the engagement.
I asked Anna to go up to her room and get her shoes before she had breakfast. I was greeted with resistance and the slowest moving girl on the planet. She stopped moving completely halfway up the stairs. With a little more urging she actually made it to her room –and disappeared. She must have been up there for 10 minutes.
At this point Pierce was well into his breakfast, Nora had finished packing lunches and Anna is still a no-show. Nora started to get a little impatient with our girl and Anna was still non-responsive so, of course, I escalated. Anna was threatened with the loss of breakfast (raisin bran) if she didn’t get moving. Unfortunately, it didn’t motivate her.
I am all about keeping promises, so Anna had to settle for a cup of milk for breakfast. Pierce offered to share his pancakes because Anna claimed, “she was starting to get very hungry”. But she turned him down -she only wanted raisin bran. Did I mention Anna was working the “tears” angle through the entire adventure?
Nora snuck a Ziploc bag of raisin bran into the car so her folks could give it to Anna later today. Anna sobbed on my shoulder and told me she thought she would be ok. And Pierce is terribly confused by the entire event. Sigh. I hope Anna learned something from all this, but I doubt it.
-Eric (Dad)
I asked Anna to go up to her room and get her shoes before she had breakfast. I was greeted with resistance and the slowest moving girl on the planet. She stopped moving completely halfway up the stairs. With a little more urging she actually made it to her room –and disappeared. She must have been up there for 10 minutes.
At this point Pierce was well into his breakfast, Nora had finished packing lunches and Anna is still a no-show. Nora started to get a little impatient with our girl and Anna was still non-responsive so, of course, I escalated. Anna was threatened with the loss of breakfast (raisin bran) if she didn’t get moving. Unfortunately, it didn’t motivate her.
I am all about keeping promises, so Anna had to settle for a cup of milk for breakfast. Pierce offered to share his pancakes because Anna claimed, “she was starting to get very hungry”. But she turned him down -she only wanted raisin bran. Did I mention Anna was working the “tears” angle through the entire adventure?
Nora snuck a Ziploc bag of raisin bran into the car so her folks could give it to Anna later today. Anna sobbed on my shoulder and told me she thought she would be ok. And Pierce is terribly confused by the entire event. Sigh. I hope Anna learned something from all this, but I doubt it.
-Eric (Dad)
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