Observe:
- We take our 2 and a half year old to a store, like Kroger. He sits in the play car that is built onto the front of the stroller, looking around quietly, perhaps occasionally beeping the little horn on the steering wheel.
- We take our 2 and a half year old to a friend or relative’s house, where it’s fine for him to babble, bang, and generally make noise. He is instead quiet and polite.
- We take the same 2 and a half year old to the library – the one place where it really would be nice if he’d be quiet, or at least quieter – and he refuses to do so. He yells, shouts, repeats things over and over. We ask him to be quiet, which we know he understand, so he gets louder. Ignoring it doesn’t make him quit, either.
This also happens when we attempt to take him to church. He’ll be fine until the sermon begins, and then immediately start babbling away, shouting, etc. I don’t get it. It’s like he has a sixth sense for when he’s supposed to be quiet, and when this sixth sense kicks in, has the great desire to do the very opposite.
Grumble. Kids!
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Oh, this is like our son get up at 7am in weekends, but on weekdays when he has to get up that early we have to wake him up and then he wants to sleep some more..
Posted 27 Apr 2007 at 1:01 am ¶Heh, yeah, that sounds about right, Kristin.
Posted 27 Apr 2007 at 3:59 pm ¶Josh: Kids just know when they can get to you. I think it is innate…lolol. They demand your attention at the most inappropriate times. At least mine, did.
Posted 28 Apr 2007 at 9:30 pm ¶Lorri: Yes, I think you’re right. They just know when they can push the boundaries.
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