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Today was the first day that it was actually hot enough to make it worthwhile to lug out the fan and get it set up. I'm also making the effort to get the kids to learn to leave the blinds alone so we can have the west-facing blinds down in the afternoon. It's actually been easier than I expected. They both really like looking out the window, so I have to make sure that they have enough window to look out, but other than that they've been pretty good.
I've been thinking lately about how originally we were hoping to have the second baby around Pippa's second birthday. As it happens, it's still a few months away. However, Pippa has started her "possessiveness" phase recently. It occurs to me that if we had a new baby, we'd probably all be thinking that her possessiveness was a reaction/regression to having a new baby in the house. Whereas in reality, it's something she was going to go through anyway.
Maybe sometimes it's just a phase and I shouldn't overthink it too much. Kids' brains develop and some concept clicks, and maybe there's some environmental factor or maybe there isn't.
A further aside: looking into other people's experiences on the possessiveness issue, I came across one mom worrying that she was being hypocritical for saying "No, you don't take a toy out of someone else's hands" and then taking the toy from the taker's hands and giving it back to the other child. She called forcibly taking a toy to rectify forcibly taking a toy a "mixed message". I immediately thought "Well, it might be hypocritical and arrogating if you were on a toddler level, but you're an adult and a parent; you're supposed to be an authority, and you have a right and a responsibility to make and enforce boundaries of behavior."
I could go much further along this train of thought but I'm really tired and should be in bed.
I've been thinking lately about how originally we were hoping to have the second baby around Pippa's second birthday. As it happens, it's still a few months away. However, Pippa has started her "possessiveness" phase recently. It occurs to me that if we had a new baby, we'd probably all be thinking that her possessiveness was a reaction/regression to having a new baby in the house. Whereas in reality, it's something she was going to go through anyway.
Maybe sometimes it's just a phase and I shouldn't overthink it too much. Kids' brains develop and some concept clicks, and maybe there's some environmental factor or maybe there isn't.
A further aside: looking into other people's experiences on the possessiveness issue, I came across one mom worrying that she was being hypocritical for saying "No, you don't take a toy out of someone else's hands" and then taking the toy from the taker's hands and giving it back to the other child. She called forcibly taking a toy to rectify forcibly taking a toy a "mixed message". I immediately thought "Well, it might be hypocritical and arrogating if you were on a toddler level, but you're an adult and a parent; you're supposed to be an authority, and you have a right and a responsibility to make and enforce boundaries of behavior."
I could go much further along this train of thought but I'm really tired and should be in bed.