I should and could write daily about the things that come flying out of Colton's mouth these days.
For instance, there's the day he handed me Emmalyn's bottle and said, "Here's her frickin' bottle mom".................to which I promptly replied, "Colton, don't repeat everything out of your Dad's mouth, okay?"
Or the evening when he kept saying "weird, is that a bad word"...and I had to quickly decide if I wanted to deem this a bad word or "okay" word. I couldn't decide, and he still says it, so I suppose that means it made the "okay" list. It could always be worse, right?
Our struggle lately, aside from the normal terrible two issues (that have recently spread like WILD FIRE...I swear he was such a good kid...), is the use of the word NOT. Now, should he be saying, "Mommy, I did not do that or I do not want that"...I'd be okay with it. When he flips back a reply to my request to go put his shoes away, with a snotty little sarcastic, "Not"...I tend to get a wee bit irritated. I truly believe this all started when he was outside working on the house with Daddy, Seth & Jeremy. I think that they thought it was funny, and encouraged it. Pam, the babysitter and myself....don't find it quite so funny. In fact, Colton has endured a few "time outs" for saying his sarcastic little NOT in the last few days.
This morning, I couldn't help but smile. I think our discipline in this matter is working. I will preface this story with the fact that he was a grouch this morning. Overly tired is what I like to tell myself, but whatever the reason, it wasn't fun. I had asked him to go get his sweatshirt on so that we could leave for Pam's and I could tell, without thought, he responded to me, "Not"...and then quickly gasped his breath and his eyes got huge and he looked up at me with those big blue eyes as if to say, "oh crap Mom, I did NOT mean to say that"..............but of course, any good mother knows, you must follow through, so off to time out he went. Of course, that sparked a temper tantrum...which just topped things off...but at least he's learning that if he says his snotty sarcastic NOT to his mother...he's going to time out! :)
So...it could always be worse, but I think he'll be lowering his use of the word NOT, or at least learn to use it in the proper context...
For instance, there's the day he handed me Emmalyn's bottle and said, "Here's her frickin' bottle mom".................to which I promptly replied, "Colton, don't repeat everything out of your Dad's mouth, okay?"
Or the evening when he kept saying "weird, is that a bad word"...and I had to quickly decide if I wanted to deem this a bad word or "okay" word. I couldn't decide, and he still says it, so I suppose that means it made the "okay" list. It could always be worse, right?
Our struggle lately, aside from the normal terrible two issues (that have recently spread like WILD FIRE...I swear he was such a good kid...), is the use of the word NOT. Now, should he be saying, "Mommy, I did not do that or I do not want that"...I'd be okay with it. When he flips back a reply to my request to go put his shoes away, with a snotty little sarcastic, "Not"...I tend to get a wee bit irritated. I truly believe this all started when he was outside working on the house with Daddy, Seth & Jeremy. I think that they thought it was funny, and encouraged it. Pam, the babysitter and myself....don't find it quite so funny. In fact, Colton has endured a few "time outs" for saying his sarcastic little NOT in the last few days.
This morning, I couldn't help but smile. I think our discipline in this matter is working. I will preface this story with the fact that he was a grouch this morning. Overly tired is what I like to tell myself, but whatever the reason, it wasn't fun. I had asked him to go get his sweatshirt on so that we could leave for Pam's and I could tell, without thought, he responded to me, "Not"...and then quickly gasped his breath and his eyes got huge and he looked up at me with those big blue eyes as if to say, "oh crap Mom, I did NOT mean to say that"..............but of course, any good mother knows, you must follow through, so off to time out he went. Of course, that sparked a temper tantrum...which just topped things off...but at least he's learning that if he says his snotty sarcastic NOT to his mother...he's going to time out! :)
So...it could always be worse, but I think he'll be lowering his use of the word NOT, or at least learn to use it in the proper context...
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