Frustrated Today
I'm so angry right now, so I'm taking a step back. I'd been going to the gym, and doing pretty well, but I didn't go at all the week with all the snow or the week following. This week, I'm determined to get back on track. I went yesterday, and I've been trying all day to get my ass over there. So I changed Katie's diaper and got her shoes on, then went to brush my hair back, change my pants and put on a sports bra.
The thing I forgot was to put the wet wipes back on the counter. Katie loooooves to take all the wet wipes out of their box and make a huge mountain of them. And unless I take the time to refold them all, they won't fit back in. She also knows that she is not supposed to do it. Like the several other things she is not supposed to do (climb up on chairs, stand on the coffee table, press buttons on the tv, and bang on the tv screen) she delights in doing them anytime she gets a chance. I used to have the tv gated off, as well as the dining room area, but she's old enough now that she should start learning some boundaries, not to mention needing more space to play in than just the living room.
I've been trying to discipline Katie, but she just doesn't get it. She knows when she's doing something she's not supposed to, she just doesn't seem to care. She cries when I tell her no (which is supposedly "enough" for her age group), if I spank her, and when I put her in time out, but 85% of the time, she comes straight out of punishment to doing what she got in trouble for or to break one the other rules. This time was no different. I got her out of her time out (in her pack and play) and spent a couple minutes comforting her, then went to gather my things for the gym. I turn around, and she's pulling the wet wipe box down. I ask if she's doing something bad, and she tells me no and puts it down. Another two minutes later, she's pulling them all out again.
At any rate, it's much too late for me to go to the gym, and I feel like I'm going backwards on this discipline thing. I am so very frustrated.
Just to note, I have asked her pediatrician for advice, and she says I'm doing everything right and everything she would advise me to do, and that Katie is stubborn and may not start responding to discipline for a couple more years. Just to keep at it and be consistent.
The thing I forgot was to put the wet wipes back on the counter. Katie loooooves to take all the wet wipes out of their box and make a huge mountain of them. And unless I take the time to refold them all, they won't fit back in. She also knows that she is not supposed to do it. Like the several other things she is not supposed to do (climb up on chairs, stand on the coffee table, press buttons on the tv, and bang on the tv screen) she delights in doing them anytime she gets a chance. I used to have the tv gated off, as well as the dining room area, but she's old enough now that she should start learning some boundaries, not to mention needing more space to play in than just the living room.
I've been trying to discipline Katie, but she just doesn't get it. She knows when she's doing something she's not supposed to, she just doesn't seem to care. She cries when I tell her no (which is supposedly "enough" for her age group), if I spank her, and when I put her in time out, but 85% of the time, she comes straight out of punishment to doing what she got in trouble for or to break one the other rules. This time was no different. I got her out of her time out (in her pack and play) and spent a couple minutes comforting her, then went to gather my things for the gym. I turn around, and she's pulling the wet wipe box down. I ask if she's doing something bad, and she tells me no and puts it down. Another two minutes later, she's pulling them all out again.
At any rate, it's much too late for me to go to the gym, and I feel like I'm going backwards on this discipline thing. I am so very frustrated.
Just to note, I have asked her pediatrician for advice, and she says I'm doing everything right and everything she would advise me to do, and that Katie is stubborn and may not start responding to discipline for a couple more years. Just to keep at it and be consistent.