Jackson goes to a Mother’s Morning Out twice a week for three hours, and since my husband is deployed, I covet these precious hours. It is nice to be able to run around with Hannah to do the grocery shopping or visit a cute coffee shop while Jackson is spending time with other kiddos.
Over the past few months, the reports have always been very positive when I pick him up. Since Hannah’s birth, however, I have been getting progressively worse reports each visit. Today when I walked in (praying for a good report), the director said she needed to speak with me.
UH OH!!!
Apparently Jackson had taken a toy (a wooden toy) and hit another boy with it.
Double UH OH!
And an “incident report” was being filled out. *Heart sinking*
Now I’m not sure how many incident reports your toddler can have before they “show you the door,” but I definitely do not want to find out. Today’s event highlights my struggle lately.
As a former teacher, it kills me (and my little ego) to have behavior problems with my own child. All of the private judgement I had for parents of unruly kids is coming back to bite me in the rear. Oops!!
But this lady is not going down (or fleeing from Target) without a fight!
I purchased the “Parenting with Love and Logic” series and I have been implementing some of those strategies recently. The Army also has a program that assists new parents who are experiencing difficulties, so I have requested a visit next week to help me.
The hardest part is discipling Jackson when Hannah is nursing. Hello–how can you do this effectively?!
Although I sound defeated, I don’t feel that way. Jackson is amazing, sweet, kind and super wonderful. We’re just working out the 10% of the time when he acts out. Ten percent can feel like 100% when you’re in the middle of a full-blown tantrum, though. Just ask me:)
If you have any thoughts, ideas, words of encouragement–I’d love to hear them. I’ll keep you posted on his progress.
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Sammy has been having similiar “reports” off and on from his preschool – they tend to happen around the time Sam has left for training or a school. He’s mostly adorable as a big brother but some hitting has started up since he started school. Honestly, don’t feel bad! Sammy’s teacher told me it’s totally expected for them to act like, well, 2 year olds at this stage and that with all those little boys running around they just tend to pick up rough ways of dealing with problems and they get a little agressive with one another. The pack and play became my place for him to sit in time out until he got to be about 2 – now he’ll sit in the corner and not move and it def works as a good punishment. As far as discipline while feeding other baby, i have to get up a lot of times with jack attached and walk sammy to time out. So frustrating! It will pass – it’s all about repetition – eventually they get it!
Hey Amy! Visiting from our recent Tweet chat! I have no words of advice as I haven’t been there yet (daughter is only 11 weeks), but I’m sure it’s ahead of me. What’s the “Parenting with Love & Logic” series? It sounds interesting. And I love the little outfit your son has on!
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