Anyway, if you ever wonder why so much of my hair is grey, I blame toddlers. They are big kids now and have gotten somewhat more sensible but it is astonishing anyone survives being a toddler.
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Oh, also, a lot of parenting books suggest that if toddlers run away from you and there’s a large amount of safe room, you wait and they will realize they’ve gone too far and come back. Worked fine with number one.
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So I have two kids and we’re at the park and the younger boy runs away and I think, “I know what to do,” and I wait. At a certain point I realize the small child is still running and is now really far away.
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So now I’m sprinting across a park after a tiny person who is laughing happily as he runs toward the far end where the street is. And I actually really enjoyed the toddler years? Stockholm syndrome, I guess.
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Also, a good thing to know is that most parenting books assume all kids are neurotypical. I know some folks hate parenting books. I’m a researcher by nature and I liked them. But they were largely useless with Kid the second.
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Kid the third was a strange mix of easiest and hardest kid. She hated being looked at and developed a terrifying death glare on a sweet baby face. People wanted to gush at her and she looked at them with deep contempt.
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On the other hand, she potty-trained herself. I did no work at all other than provide a potty. She was fully trained by 24 months entirely on her own volition.
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I figured I could have another few kids if they were all this model. But that was before she deliberately locked us out of our room because she was angry about something.
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Some of her angry behavior was really charming to me, though. She was an early reader and when she was about three or four, I did something that deeply offended her. I saw her angrily coloring after whatever it was and left her to it.
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Later I found a drawing of Hello Kitty with angry eyebrows and the word DETH under her. It was the worst word she could think of. Toddler swearing.
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