Thursday, December 4, 2008

Discipline, discipline, discipline

Carmel is reaching the "terrible 2 stage" much earlier than we expect!

These phase is not just A phase and we understand now. Not only our little one learned his little steps and babbling words, he learns to express himself emotionally by throwing tantrums. That's the terrible part. Though we knew it's a matter of time that he learns the correct 'expression', we will have to be patient with our little tot! Simply by venting his frustration when he couldn't communicate well or couldn't get the things that he wanted, he will throw tantrum.

Last evening, he was crying non-stop for 30 minutes for the first time during our ride back home! He started throwing tantrum after we refused to give him more chocolate cake. So we all adopted the 'ignore him' tactic by not giving in to him. It was a painful yet cant be help situation which lasted 30 mins. Sigh and he only stop after we reached home and in my arms...

After all this drama, we have to 'educate' him what he did was a bad behavior etc and teaching him to apologise. It's just the beginning of our "mother/father & son discipleship"...
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