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May 23, 2006
I've cleaned excretions from every orifice today, but that wasn't the bad part
I had a perky happy post roughed out for today, but I'm not in a perky happy place.
Jamie's crying and whining has brought me to a point where I'd be willing to spank her, but I'm afraid once I start I won't be able to stop. I'm that fed up.
As a sample of the earth-shattering incidents that brought her to tears today:
- I gave Katie half of my keys to play with in the car. She dropped them between the carseats, but where they were easy to see and reach.
- She and Katie were playing with a ball while I was showering. Katie didn't roll it back in a timely manner.
- Jamie was playing with her barrette last night. She said she was going to play with it more this morning, and she did. I asked her to give me the barrette so I could put it in her hair, she did, I did, she lost it because she wanted to play with it more. (Normally, she would be crying because it wasn't in her hair, and her hair was in her face while she was trying to eat.)
Add the whining, and my ears are practically bleeding. Some temporary deafness would also save me from Katie's ear-piercing shrieks when anyone/Jamie tries to take anything from her. Or gets close to something she wants. Oh, and she cries every time I get near my laptop. Apparently she knows what her competition is.
I don't know how to fight Jamie's crying anymore. I know whining is part of the program, and even a certain amount of the crying. I can often get her to suck it up and stop crying with threats, but I don't like threatening her constantly. Sending her to her room makes her screech like the demons of hell are exorcising themselves from her body, which is fine, because obviously I'd prefer she not be filled with demons. Hasn't decreased the frequency or length of the fits, though. I guess the demons just keep coming back.
Maybe I should go Costanza for a week, and just do the opposite. The results can't be any worse, can they?
Posted by me at May 23, 2006 10:37 PM