I don’t say it out loud very often, but I feel like my life has been taken over by the wrath of the two year old.
All forms of life revolve around the two year old at our house…..When we get up in the morning. When we eat. Whether or not we leave the house and she determines how quickly our trips are.
The wrath of the two year old leaves me exhausted. My sweet daughter is one of the friendliest kids out there. She says, “Hi” to everyone she meets. She laughs and loves to play with other children. She is also one of the most active kids you will ever meet. She doesn’t walk places, she either trots or runs, and is CONSTANTLY on the go.
Several months back I was thinking to myself how grateful my little girl is not one of those kids who constantly says, “no”. My thoughts have come back to bite me. She whines, screams and shouts, “NO!” And I am pretty sure she means it.
I made a vow not to take her to the store any more. Most trips turn into a nightmarish visit. No matter how much I don’t want to take her to the store I still drag her there occasionally. Silly, silly me. Today was one of those days.
She will start out by sitting in the cart if I am lucky. Then the wiggles get to her. Or she will see a brightly colored package of cookies, candy, chips…. You name it. Something catches her attention and she starts standing, wiggling or throwing her body out of the cart. If she doesn’t find a way to wiggle herself out of the cart she begins to scream and repeat what ever had caught her attention. “Canee, Canee, CANEE!!!” (candy)
Sometimes if I just let her out of the cart, just allowing her to walk will solve the screaming on a good
day. Today staying in the cart lasted about 35 seconds before I had all eyes my way with my screaming toddler. We luckily were in the produce area so she wasn’t yelling for candy. She is rather fond of broccoli right now. So instead she shouted, “Bra-key, bra-key, bra-key”. I was able to keep her at bay as I let her help me fill a bag with broccoli. Of coarse she did attempt to sneak a bite in the process.
I tried my hardest to get the remainder of the items on my list (which was only 4) but none the less, running, screaming, tantruming two year old continued. I held her all the way, through the checkout as she lashed and tried to escape my grip. Some people stared past the monstrosity, others looked at me as if I was an evil parent. I just kept my cool and tried not to drop the contents of my wallet, or my kid at the check out.
Two year old girl, was as happy as I was to get out of there. As were the other customers, I am sure. I am just grateful we all made it out alive! Unfortunately this isn’t an unusual event.
Yesterday we braved the mall. We were going to make a quick trip in and out of Sears to purchase a new dishwasher. We already knew which one we wanted. We hoped to go in and out and be done. It never happens that way. The sales guy was helpful, and wanted to show us all the other options.
With our screaming, runaway two year old, our quick jaunt to the store turned to an hour ordeal, where the noisy one had to be hauled out by daddy. Think the looks in a grocery store are bad, try Sears where all the people mid-day seemed to be old and in shock of her behavior. Common people, she is two. At least that is what I keep telling myself with the hopes that it doesn’t last like this forever. My sanity is at stake here.
Sometimes making big purchases stresses me out. I was just about on edge of going crazy, trying to make a decision and trying to manage my daughter. All I can say is that I am glad that is over….. Until next time.
Happy Parenting.
2 comments:
That is just so hard when your kiddo has such strong intentions....and you have something that really needs to get done. It sure takes a lot of energy.
I think you are amazing to handle two little ones with their varied needs.
I hope you get a really good night's sleep!!!
This post made me smile! This reminded me SO much of Hailey and me (and I'm sure it will soon be the same with Tanner)! I remember days of walking into Albertsons and then walking right back out. Don't worry . . . looking back I don't think the phase lasted toooo long, but then again maybe that is because I blocked it out of my memory. At the time, I thought the phase was never ending. Not the best parenting in the world, but I bought a bag of dum dum suckers just for shopping trips. As soon as Hailey was strapped in, I handed her a sucker. It bought me a few minutes for the short shopping trips. A few other things I tried (albeit I don't remember if they worked), I would give her a picture shopping list. I drew pictures of the items I needed and told her to be on the look out. Sometimes I would stand in front of the item and tell her I couldn't find the item and had her help me "find" it. Sometimes I would let her choose items for me too (as in which head of broccoli should I get) or asked her to pick which fruit we should get. I also remember starting to shop at Costco because it was so huge the screaming didn't sound as loud (Albertsons is silent, so I stopped shopping there). And finally I remember just smiling and saying "it's tough being two" to every parent who walked by staring at my screaming child and me. Good luck! The terrible twos is no fun. Tanner just turned two and the tantrums have begun . . . mainly at home but I am sure they will be while shopping soon! Good luck!!! I empathize with you!!!
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