use your words
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Language modelling so assiduously inculcated into Becca at the early childhood centre (must stop calling it a nursery) proving a mixed blessing. They've taught her to say 'Stop it - I don't like it!' when affronted, but now she chimes it out at the slightest provocation - offers of anything to eat other than raisins, attempts to stop her from flinging herself under passing cars or to make her wear shoes. Even looking at her askance can earn you a firm reprimand. And don't get me started on last week, when she was croupy and had to be forcibly medicated - repeatedly. (I knew my years as a paediatric radiographer and thus daily overpowerer of small people would come in handy one day. Other than for, you know, making a living and that.) Still, it occurred to me this morning during swimming lessons (while sagely counselling a fellow mum of slightly younger tot) that I can't remember the last time she bit anyone.
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