Giving yourself a goal of writing everyday is hard. Just after you write something and feel safe, the next day comes around and you have to write again. I don’t have the luxury of my days on the Subway being captive and having to write something… so… parenting.
Aveline is now 3 and a half years old. She’s starting to be a person. She talks, she has things she likes, she laughs at things and loves Daniel Tiger. In my 3 and half years of knowing her, and the last 18 months of her being a bit more of a person… I notice that every change and step in life requires about 6 weeks of adjustment (not coincidentally, that is the amount of time it takes to form a habit) So whenever she goes from a bobo to no bobo, from diapers to underpants or from one class room to another… there is 6 weeks of what the fuck is going on?
1 week of bewilderment
1 week of we have to do something
1 week of lets find out what to do
1 week of implementation of what to do
2 week so working thru our plan and acceptance
So Aveline moved up a grade in pre-school about 3-4 weeks ago and Lisa and I went through the usual stages? Why is Aveline being such a dick? If Aveline stays like this we’re going to kill her. Ok, we have to do something. Lets read, lets ask friends…. Ok.. lets watch a YouTube video of Super Nanny…. And boom… there is our plan… a chill out bench… a star chart for good behavior and we’ve turned the corner… same thing every time and we forget everytime….
So the next change will be a bed for Aveline (shes still in a crib… makes life easy) and it will be six weeks of change and we’ll have to remember our steps…
One reply on “I gotta write something… Ok… Parenting…”
let me know when in the 6 week window is the best time to visit ….
LOL.
love the sticker and stars idea