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Do you have a toddler at home who drives you nuts with their way out skewed response to your mundane requests? Well, you're not alone!
Do you have a toddler at home who drives you nuts with their way out skewed response to your mundane requests? Well, you’re not alone!
A toddler’s mother multi tasks, she’s constantly battling time and is positively sleep deprived. She has more clothes with food stains than not. Her heels do not get enough action and her nails wail for a manicure. To add insult to injury, her toddler’s response to her daily requests can range from the opposite to exaggerated opposite of what is desired. Here are a few examples of requests a mother makes and the responses that may be expected from a toddler.
Mom’s requests in bold. Oh, and when I say toddler, it could be any pre-schooler too!
Play catch with the chicken served, as playtime has just begun.
Ask for cookies and chips as that is what dinner should be obviously.
Run to the toy room and serve pretend dinner to toys and scold then for not finishing their food.
Put the underwear on his/ her head, run like a headless chicken and bang the head, then cry incessantly resulting in the mother dressing up the toddler.
Jump on the bed pretending it’s a trampoline.
Time for lollipops and candy, get a sugar rush and run in the house naked.
Rush to the loo for a poop and play with the water jet as there is ample time for fun and frolic.
Start packing candy for the 15 friends in school and then go for a poop.
Begin storytelling or informing the mother about a so called important incident that occurred in school 3 months back.
Pick the iPad and start playing on favorite app, begging for 10 minutes more every 10 minutes.
Get hunger pangs and beg for gourmet snacks and mercy combined.
Develop a serious stomach ache and curl up in bed with favorite toy.
It’s tantrum time! Time to sob, cry, wail and repeat. If the devil strikes then lie on the floor and attract attention from strangers.
Give puppy eyed look and start to beg. Say please a 100 times and make promises about never asking for any gift ever again.
Pick the item from the aisle and place it on payment counter with the other items expecting payment.
Switch the television on to watch cartoons.
Run to Dad proclaiming love for him and begin playing head bang or catch.
Ask questions that need long elaborate explanations like how come god is everywhere or tricky ones about the birds, bees and educated flees.
So, in effect there tends to be a serious gap in communication with a toddler. Simple requests can lead to elaborate disruptive behavior which may lead to a tornado.
Communicating with a toddler can cause serious headaches, but their unfettered enthusiasm can be amusing and even rub on you. And when they do finally go to sleep, that little bundle is the most innocent and attractive thing in the house and you marvel that you had a role in its creation. At that point you thank god and the circus begins again the next day!
Published here earlier.
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I am currently a stay at home mom trying to raise a dare devil of a toddler. I have over 10 year experience in the banking and insurance sector and have worked in organisations like read more...
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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