Posted by Maria in
family
Saturday, July 28. 2007
If memory serves (which of course with lack of sleep and current pregnancy it may not), we were told of this thing called the terrible twos. Angus turned two and all went on as normal, he was a generally polite and obedient child and continued that way.
Until about a month ago - he turns three in about a month, so about 2 months before being a big three year old his behaviour changed (for the worse of course!). These are turning into trying times, hence the trying threes. He seems to understand we have limits and boundaries to what we will put up with, and he seems to need to push those limits when we ask him to do things. He quite obviously hears and understands what we are asking but then waits until he is on the verge (or sometimes past) of being punished for not listening. We have had to change our behaviour and stop counting to three before he gets "timed out", because he was simply waiting until 3 to do anything!
But we are viewing this as a stage he goes through (hopefully a short one) and eventually we will get back some semblance of that polite and obedient child we once knew. As with all kids he has the moments that make it all worth while - like when he told me "Mummy, you are my best friend". Will be interesting to see how he copes when the baby arrives in a few months. He is getting to observe his older cousin and newly arrived baby brother, so hopefully it won't come as too much of a shock to the system...I know that will come back to haunt me!
