) but the backtalking has reached new levels of ridiculousness. \u00a0Honeybun\u00a0still believes she should have the last word in every situation.\u00a0 She has also added eye rolling and glaring to her repertoire.\u00a0 I\u2019ve gotten to the point where when I give her a choice and she gets nasty about it, she gets nothing.\u00a0 Sometimes her choices are \u201cthis or nothing\u201d and even after an attitude meltdown I would\u00a0 let her have whatever the choice was, not anymore!\u00a0 You argue, cry, fuss, scream, you get NOTHING and mommy walks away.<\/span><\/p>\nFor example, yesterday after lunch she asked for dessert.\u00a0 I told her dessert is something we don\u2019t get every day but she could have some fruit salad (with marshmallows, what\u2019s better than that?!?!?!)\u00a0 She went hysterical \u201cI don\u2019t like the fruit salad!\u00a0 The coconut is nasty!\u00a0 I\u2019m not going to eat it!\u201d\u00a0 \u201cFine by me, then you get nothing.\u201d\u00a0 More screaming and hysterics.\u00a0 5 minutes later: \u201cOk, I\u2019ll have fruit salad.\u00a0 But I\u2019m only going to eat the cherries.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cNo, I said you get nothing.\u00a0 If you are going to lose control of yourself then you lose your choice.\u201d\u00a0 More hysterics.\u00a0 And off to nap she went!<\/p>\n
The Questioner<\/b>:\u00a0 Sugarplum is a very independent child.\u00a0 She loves to do things by herself (\u201cSugarplum DO IT!\u201d), often refuses help and gets upset if you try to help without her permission (sometimes even after she\u2019s given you permission).\u00a0 She is also becoming very curious and often asks \u201cWhat that?\u201d and the all-time mommy favorite \u201cwhy?\u201d\u00a0 She\u2019s not a persistent why-er.\u00a0 She doesn\u2019t ask why as a string of questions but it does come up often.<\/p>\n
For example, this morning Sugarplum was climbing on the side of her bed and I told her no climbing.\u00a0 She turned around and asked \u201cwhy?\u201d while simultaneously falling and banging her leg on the way down.\u00a0 \u201cBecause you could get hurt.\u201d\u00a0 Cue hysterical screaming and demanding of a Band-Aid.\u00a0 It took us nearly 20 minutes to recover.\u00a0 The other night she choked on some food because she was up running around.\u00a0 The next night at dinner hubby told her to sit down and she, of course, responded with \u201cwhy?\u201d\u00a0 \u201cRemember when you choked last night because you were dancing around with food in your mouth?\u00a0 We sit on our bottom when we are eating.\u201d<\/p>\n
I truly believe we have very few rules in our house and those we do have are mostly safety and cleanliness related.\u00a0 I find it absolutely exhausting and irritating when they argue or question these simple rules.\u00a0 Our rules have been the same since the start so it\u2019s not like the girls are not familiar with our expectations.\u00a0 I guess each is just in her own phase of figuring out the world and me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lately my life feels like a bad joke:\u00a0 A complainer, an arguer and a questioner walk into a bar\u2026 Only the bar is my house and instead of walking in, they\u2019re here ALL THE TIME (other than the complainer\u2026but that\u2019s not what this is about) and there\u2019s no catchy ending that makes you giggle, though […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-mommys-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2410,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions\/2410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}