I am an aggrivated mom right now. For the past couple weeks, it has been awful trying to get Kayden to go to sleep. Finally, the past two nights he has gone to sleep without much effort. Well he decided to wake up at 6:15 this morning when I woke up to feed Cory. I tried to get him to go back to sleep but it didn't work. So I told him he could get up if he took a nap this afternoon. Well it's naptime and guess who's giving me a hard time about it? Not Cory, he's sleeping peacefully in the swing :-) But that Kayden boy upstairs, not a good kid right now. He already had Piggy and Pooh taken away from him and going to his grandparents church for Awana. ( I won't ever not let him go to things at our church out of punishment, but I will for someone else's church) So since he's not going to Awana, I can't go play volleyball tonight. :-( It stinks that I have to miss something I enjoy because my kid isn't being good. Oh well, such is parenthood. I just want him to be good and listen to me! He is a very stubborn child!
He had speech for the very first time today. It was one-on-one just like I wanted. The lady kept trying to get him to do things and he refused. He kept pouting and saying "no". It was very frustrating. I was alittle embarassed too. I want him to do what they say so he can talk better. I also want him to be able to listen to what a teacher tells him to do and do it. I'm worried for kindergarten and my stubborn little boy. Hopefully he will get better in the next year and a half. That's a long time, so I'm hoping so. I will be teaching him preschool in the fall, so hopefully he will learn to follow direction better then. I was trying to show him how to hold a marker the right way and he like flipped out! oh what a child! He is definitely strong-willed! I think that's also our potty training problems source. He just doesn't want to have anything to do with it.
Well, this was my vent for the day. Felt good to write it all down! Now to clean the house and hope that the 3 year old goes to sleep!
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Well I so enjoyed reading your venting LOL :) Sorry you're having frustrations with your darling child! :) Hopefully he went to sleep early for you tonight since he was up early! And maybe once he goes to speech more he'll get used to it...what kind of things did they do? We have a child with speech issues in class this year and I think we're going to have to do a referral. Oh, and as for the marker-holding thing, from what I've heard, you should just let them hold it however when they are three, since their fine motor isn't usually well-enough developed enough for that and they will learn when they are ready :) Not that I know that much lol, but I've seen it over the past 3.5 yrs. of teaching pre-schoolers :) Well I think you should write me an e-mail or something sometime! :-) tata!
ReplyDeleteHey Ash, I cannot remember if I told you about this book I'm reading but I think you'd love it. It's a parenting book, but not: "Shepherding a Child's Heart" by Tedd Tripp.
ReplyDeleteI'm not that far in it yet, but it has totally impressed me. Anyway, it's def. worth a read. It won't give any quick fixes or anythign like that, but I think it gives a good perspective on how we should approach our kids in everything! Parenting is so stinkin tough. I've been getting pretty frustrated with Yana lately, too! Love ya! Jessie