'There I was, losing a battle to a tiny version of myself.'
I felt her eyes burn a hole right through my soul. That glare was ever so piercing. Daggers aimed straight for my heart. My precious, sweet five year old had turned against me. I was begging her, for what seemed like the fourth straight hour, to please finish her dinner.
We all hear the warning from our parents: Just you wait until you have kids. But I had no idea that my beautiful little pink bundle of joy would turn out to be this sassy little diva just five years later. I thought children morphed into their parents somewhere in their thirties? My son is a walking, talking, scaled-down version of my husband: kind, compassionate, intelligent, but he can be pessimistic and hard on himself. My daughter is loving, sweet, dramatic, and willful. They are both stubborn. They are naturally funny and sometimes use humor to deflect tension — a traitIt’s not hard to laugh when they are trying to get out of trouble.
It hasn’t been easy for me, but I have learned to slow down in these moments and ask myself two questions: What is this child upset about? And if I were them, what would I want? Because the flip side of staring at a pint-size version of your own stubborn self is that, if you are self-aware, you know what to do.
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