tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-125421598427496260.post-53482007259970116942008-07-28T14:10:00.000-07:002008-07-28T14:10:01.055-07:00Mar Always Gets Her Way!<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Xav has become increasingly frustrated with Mar as she gets bigger and more strong-willed by the day. She’s still only one and thus far too young to reason with with any consistent success. Xav tries -- I hear him often trying to tell her that the toy she is grabbing is his or that the tower she just knocked down was a building he was trying to make even bigger. Just now, Xav was actually trying to do some cleaning up but, much to his chagrin, Mar had chosen his block box as a comfortable spot for a break -- she declared with a shrill warning that she wasn’t going to get out for any housecleaning. As was the case this time, it sometimes escalates -- he rips something out of her hand or pushes/drags her out of the way and she cries, all the while grabbing for whatever it is she wants again. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Doc and I explain to Xav that his sister is only one and that he’ll need to give in because she is only now learning to know better but isn‘t quite good at “knowing better” yet. Sometimes he’s ok with it, other times he pouts and complains. I get it -- it’s hard to so rarely get your way in such situations. We compliment him AD NAUSEUM about being a terrific big brother and for being so good and kind to his sister. Now that she’s talking more, we even remind Mar to say “thank you” to Xav and she frequently obliges (and this does make him feel good). This isn’t to say Xav won’t play with her -- he does, more than I could have ever imagined he would. But Xav is a quiet sort who enjoys his alone time, a party Mar crashes far too often.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So this is how it is going to be for the next 14 years or so, I take it? Mar always getting into Xav’s stuff and Doc and I having to settle the feud? I know it will be easier to deal with when Mar gets a little older and something tells me Xav cannot wait when she does.</span>AMRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12914904745033720478amrwillgofar@yahoo.com2