Toddlers
Smack Down!
15/08/08 18:17 Filed in: My Kids' A
BadAss!
I have a question for the collective consciousness. Oh and sorry I’ve been away for so long, it’s been a nutzo summer. (Holiday my ass!). Anyway, back to my question. How do you get your toddler to stop kicking the crap out of her big sister? This is not figurative in any way. What seems like every 15 minutes or so she has her big sister in tears. I have seen her with my own eyes, the toddler walk up behind her sister, grin at me, and give her a two handed whack across the back of the head. She pulls her hair, hits, kicks, spits, jumps on, and directs all manner of other acts of bodily harm at her big sister. I want to emphasize that this is her BIG SISTER. More than twice her age and twice her weight. Tactics? Naughty Spot? HAH! she says, what a joke. Put her in her crib? Slightly more effective but she forgets quickly why she is there. Confiscate her suckie and blankie? The rage this produces blinds her from all logical and consequential thinking and does not have the desired effect. A few weeks ago we were camping (in the living room) while SugarMomma was away for the night and the ThingTwo decided it would be tremendous fun to stand on the back of the couch and do a double-bouncing flying body slam on to her sister’s head while yelling “Ku-Fung Panda - Ska-Doosh!” Honestly I don’t know whether I was more proud or more angry because it was awesome, but once again had her sister in tears. ThingOne is the Drama-Goddess, which is way higher in the scheme of things than a Drama-Queen so you get the picture. She’s going to be a star, or a FIFA level soccer player........ Anyway, I’ve resorted to scolding ThingTwo loud enough for ThingOne to hear and saying “ThingTwo! You had better watch out, because one of these times ThingOne is going to turn around and wallop you and it’s going to hurt, because she is much bigger than you, and stronger than you. I want ThingOne to reign a little Playground justice down on ThingTwo but I can’t tell her to do so, not explicitly at least, that would just mess up her whole value system. Black would be white, cats and dogs would live together, it would be total anarchy......
So what do I do? Honestly I need some seasoned vets perspective. Help?........Please?
BBD.
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