- to cry in front of your two year old because she head butted you in the nose at the end of a long day?
- to not read her a bedtime story because you are still crying and your head is starting to pound after she head-butted you in the nose?
- to be a hard-ass and not go back in to read her a story, even though she begged you as you walked out the door and has been crying for you to go read her one?
- to let one night slide?
- to concede defeat at her hands and just walk away, to your room, to the television, to a bottle of chilled wine?
- to wallow in your own self-pity and belief that you have failed as a parent because your two year old jumped into a water puddle after you told her twice not to, and then you swatted her behind?
- to ask G*d if she was joking when she gave you this beautiful, precocious, willful, amazingly smart and yet so challenging child?
- to question G*d's wisdom in thinking that you can handle all of this?
- to ask "why me?"
- to wonder if you have the strength to get through the night without completely losing it, and to have the strength to get up and do it all again tomorrow?
- to hope that tomorrow will be better?
- to hope that you will heal, emotionally, and that the scars might someday fade?
- to hope and believe that the two-year old will someday be a three-year old and the "terrible twos" will be a memory?
to admit you're fallible?
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