Toddler Glossary
Officious: With 146 gazillion blocks stewing every floor in the house, the 2-year-old charged with picking them up must start with the ONE block currently in the baby’s hand.
Officious: With 146 gazillion blocks stewing every floor in the house, the 2-year-old charged with picking them up must start with the ONE block currently in the baby’s hand.
March 9, 2010 - Posted by MaryP | behavioural stuff, Peeve me | toddlers
A childcare provider is expected to be a superhuman mix of the Madonna and Mary Poppins, ever patient, loving, kind, always delighting in the sweetness of her charges. I don’t do such a bad job, all in all, and it’s far more likely the parents than the children who strain my sanity most days. But I’m here to tell you: It’s Not ALL Mary Poppins…
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of course!
You have just defined my 8 year old’s relationship with my 5 year old, and of course, my 5 year old’s relationship with my 1 year old!
Sigh…
WHY is that?? Drives me batty.
Carrien has a very nice suggestion. I’m not so nice… 😀
hah! I have a 6 and 8 yo who do the same thing. 🙂
I think it may have something to do with how they see. It’s the most obvious one to them, maybe.
You have such a kind and gentle read on it, you sweet woman.
And the second one is on the other side of the room and he must stop and stack one on another. It’s hard to resist the temptation to do it yourself!
I’m a fan of the Sweep Technique. I take a broom and sweep all the pieces of whatever into a heap by the bin it needs to go into. They take it from there. It doesn’t eliminte the distraction factor, but it sure does minimize it!