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Saturday, December 09, 2006 - (see all news for this day)
stubborness - 08:21 AM
(filed under 'smiley')
smiley can really hold onto an idea. some kids can fairly easily be distracted when they've got their mind set on something they can't or aren't allowed to have. i suspect it may be a boy thing, because my dad has found this to be the same with his first boy out of his now four kids.
i'll give you an example of smiley hanging in there for the long haul until he got his way .. mind you, he only got his way when i was ready to do what he wanted me to do.
yesterday morning after we woke up, he wanted me to carry him down the stairs, but i was already busy doing something i think. i told him that he could go down the stairs himself. he's perfectly capable of doing so & certainly doesn't need to be carried. i insisted that he should go down on his own & that if he didn't come down then he'd have to stay up there all day.
i began to put his table & chairs together & tried to encourage him to come down by saying that he could help me with them. he likes to pass me the screws & the like, you see.
it didn't make any difference. he lay up there carrying on complaining & crying at me for at least twenty minutes, maybe as long as half an hour, while i sat downstairs putting the table & chairs together. he simply would not give in. when i'd finished, i did go to get him, but on my terms, which was when i was ready to go there, not when he was demanding me to do it.
not sure if it was the best thing for me to actually go & get him in the end, but i'm pretty sure that he would have stayed up there banging away at the walls with his feet & throwing himself around for quite a while longer. he's got staying power, that kid.
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my vote is that you should have left him up there. he's got to find some level of independence. however, i can understand you wearing down after so long.