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the baby she crazy the baby she crazy baby tales saturday may 14 2011 the benefits of rules ever since even considering having children i ve had one or two very firm ideas about childrearing one of those ideas is never backing down what mummy says goes no matter what when i say no i mean no when i say it s time to go home we re going home and so on in the last few days i have noticed those rules paying off for me and i thought i would post the details firstly to brag secondly to look back on and smile and thirdly to hopefully assist any parents with problem children or issues with discipline elspeth has been a bit of a fussy eater for a while now when she was around 18 months old i started cracking down on fussy eating if she didn t eat the dinner i gave her she got nothing at all no new dinner no dessert she went to bed hungry now at 22 months of age she is coming to realise this she might make a fuss and yell and scream not wanting to eat but if i leave her food out and ignore the tantrum she will eat it before too long like all children elspeth knows when she likes something like chips tonight hubby and i had corn chips out and she kept asking for some she said please and thank you but before long i decided she d had enough chips i told her no more you ve had enough she cried for about a minute and asked for more chips please a couple of times but three or four no s was enough to make her stop that s a vast improvement on previous incidents where she would throw a tantrum and keep asking for half an hour also like all children elspeth knows when she s having fun we went to child s play a big indoor playground thing this morning it was fantastic fun for all of us however when the time came to leave i simply told elspeth it s time to go now and she headed straight for the door beating hubby and i there these are just a few recent examples of her good behaviour which i m very impressed with and which i attribute almost entirely to my stubbornness i m rarely unfair or mean to her just firm and resolute i mean what i say and she knows it i sincerely hope i can keep this up when i have two children and that she remains an angel as she gets older posted by stace at 6 52 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday march 13 2011 telling stories elspeth loves hearing stories about herself and the things she s been doing lately today aidan and i told her this story once upon a time there was a little girl called elspeth they all start this way one day her mummy and daddy took her to a playground she climbed up the biggest steps she s ever climbed up and up and up all the way to the top up the top there was a wobbly bridge and mummy stood at one end while daddy stood at the other elspeth ran across the bridge to daddy and then back again to mummy and back and forth lots of times then her daddy put her on the slide and elspeth went down the slide with a weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee and mummy caught her at the bottom the end every time one of the stories about herself gets to the end elspeth says again or more so we tell another one or the same one again but differently it s lots of fun for all concerned posted by stace at 4 18 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday march 4 2011 oh the arghness little elspeth of the adorable behaviours and cherubic face has been just a little bit of a nightmare this evening very clingy very whiny well i say very when compared to her usual cheerful self i think she s missing her daddy he s out till quite late tonight however she finally ate dinner consented to hear a story and has gone to sleep the drawback of this is that i m now feeling bored and restless there s housework to be done as always but you know it can wait until tomorrow posted by stace at 8 26 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday march 1 2011 hug hug hug hug currently elspeth s most used phrase very sweet very cute nice that she likes to hug me but when i m trying to wash dishes sweep the floor or cook dinner it can get very slightly annoying but look at that face how can you refuse so she gets hugged possibly more than any other child in history it keeps her happy and i guess that s the main thing posted by stace at 5 14 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday january 25 2011 how can you have any pudding if you don t eat your meat for the first time tonight elspeth has been put to bed without dinner she has lately taken to refusing to eat her main course secure in the knowledge that she will be given yummy dessert later anyway i have done this in order to make her sleep through the night and not wake up hungry however that stops tonight no more fussiness no more games if she doesn t eat dinner she doesn t get dessert and she goes hungry it is a hard line to take but i hope it will get her into good habits nice and early and discourage fussy eating i do not have the patience for it and i will not continue to offer her multiple meals or courses every night in the hope that she will eventually eat one do you hear my foot coming down the foot is down i have put my foot down posted by stace at 9 21 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday january 20 2011 life in the high chair it appears that life in the highchair is over elspeth is now completely refusing to eat while strapped into it in fact she sits there yelling until i let her down now nothing will do but to sit in her very own chair at her very own mismatched table to eat her dinner she s been 18 months old for five days and in those five days it seems like she s really made the transition from baby to toddler it s been coming on for some time but now i think it s complete wish me luck posted by stace at 7 19 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday january 19 2011 something fishy for a little while now i ve been feeling somewhat bored with my home based existence and occasionally i come up with a gem of an idea to get me and sometimes ellie too out of the house today s brilliant idea was the melbourne aquarium i really like the aquarium i like fish i find the place usually soothing and calming but i forgot it s school holidays the place was busy i mean totally crazy busy the press and crush of the crowds meant that i didn t see very much and poor little elspeth saw even less there was also an entire area the whole upper floor that we couldn t get to we were turned away from the elevator and the ramp was too crowded with people coming down for us to to get up however we did get to see the sharks and the oceanarium was at least large enough that i felt comfortable stopping for a few minutes and letting elspeth have a run around so all in all as much as i love the aquarium i would not go there again during school holidays i might go again in a few weeks and we can just relax posted by stace at 8 40 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday january 14 2011 an unexpected career choice my daughter has turned interior decorator and apparently my choice of home furnishings is inadequate to satisfy her tastes it is now essential that almost everything in the house be covered in crayon scrawls no matter if it be table wall chair floor or mum i suppose i must take a portion of the blame i leave crayons out and i do encourage their use although i ve lost count of how many times i ve said only on the paper honey posted by stace at 9 07 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday january 12 2011 the first ponytail ellie doesn t usually stay still for very long and certainly not long enough to do anything with her hair but today apparently wanting to imitate me she wanted a ponytail and kept her head still for long enough for me to do this at some point aidan has told her that ponies are just little horses so now she s wandering around the house pulling at her ponytail saying neigh however that hairtie has stayed in there for a remarkably long time about ten minutes so far so i think we re on a winner with ponytails posted by stace at 2 31 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday january 11 2011 early mornings yaaawwwwnnnn for a couple of weeks now elspeth has been waking up at 8am or even later it s been glorious but yesterday and today have been early mornings and it sucks she woke at 6 30 today that ain t cool need more sleep i might send ellie off to my parents place for a few days sometime soon everybody seems to like that in the meantime i have assignments to finish somehow posted by stace at 7 51 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest older posts home subscribe to posts atom blog archive 2011 15 may 1 the benefits 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