I'd always wondered how childcare providers managed large numbers of children because I was kept busy with keeping up with just the one, and now I know: they don't have large numbers of kids like E -- all the other parents were chatting in the secure knowledge that their kids were mostly hanging out in the same area, whereas I was continually having to chase after E.
Bwaaaa ha ha ha ha ha!!! My oldest was like this (he's almost 15yo) - ultimately he's the one responsible for the fact that I teach Positive Discipline, because I needed 99 strategies to help him for every 5 strategies I need to help *other* parents :D
Let me tell you though - everyone jokes that at least your child-with-a-will-of-adamant will not succumb to peer pressure in adolescence, right? Well it's completely true :P Dakota does what he thinks is right and doesn't give a damn about what his peers think - and since for the most part he's got his head screwed on straight from years of careful emotional intelligence teaching....this works out well :D So hang in there!
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Bwaaaa ha ha ha ha ha!!! My oldest was like this (he's almost 15yo) - ultimately he's the one responsible for the fact that I teach Positive Discipline, because I needed 99 strategies to help him for every 5 strategies I need to help *other* parents :D
Let me tell you though - everyone jokes that at least your child-with-a-will-of-adamant will not succumb to peer pressure in adolescence, right? Well it's completely true :P Dakota does what he thinks is right and doesn't give a damn about what his peers think - and since for the most part he's got his head screwed on straight from years of careful emotional intelligence teaching....this works out well :D So hang in there!