As I eluded in my last couple of posts, he is really starting to exercise his free will. Luckily for us, he still has “the attention span of a fly” as Mama has so eloquently articulated. He is really starting to protest when you want him to do something he doesn’t want to do. And again, sometimes he is just protesting to protest. And then, all of a sudden, we find ourselves in a restaurant (or some other public place) being those people with a screaming child. Luckily, “look over there!”, still works really well. I pulled that trick in a very small but crowded restaurant the other day. A father sitting at a table with three teenagers looked at me and gave me a big “thumbs up”, as he was laughing and trying not to spit out his beer. Sitting with three teenagers, he had obviously been there before, but the vote of confidence was kind of amusing and a bit reassuring on some level. Jago seems to be doing that kind of thing more and more, and you really have to remember to just stay cool and not let him influence our behavior. Wonder how much longer “looketh over there” will work. Soon I will need to be more cleaver with my redirections!
Raising Little Jago