How do you get a 5-year-old to get up and get dressed and eat and be ready? She just lays there, maybe moves while I'm in the room, but stops when I turn to help the other daughter. How can I motivate her? She doesn't care if we're late. She just wants to listen to music or play with a flashlight or pretend to be asleep or do whatever else happens to catch her attention.
How do you catch a cloud and pin it down?
Accountant by day. Mother by night... and day. Over-scheduled and over-committed. But, oh, so blessed.
Karya
I'm head cook, cab driver, dog walker, bookkeeper, maid, and ... well, mom! My life is kept full by my 3 beautiful daughters, May, Ruth & Rose, and my husband, Spitz. Thankfully, I have Jesus as my Savior to lean upon for strength and patience!
A normal week is full of homework, gymnastics, ballet, laundry, church, drama, accounting and prayer. Oh, and just for giggles I work in my husband's medical practice and at my daughters' school office. In the midst, I strive to find moments to archive our life.
A normal week is full of homework, gymnastics, ballet, laundry, church, drama, accounting and prayer. Oh, and just for giggles I work in my husband's medical practice and at my daughters' school office. In the midst, I strive to find moments to archive our life.
Our family in Edinburgh Castle in Edinburgh, Scotland
Recent Reads!
The Key to Rondo by Emily Rodda
Echoes In the Dark by Robin D. Owens (finishes off the Summoning series)
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Echoes In the Dark by Robin D. Owens (finishes off the Summoning series)
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
3 comments:
Hehehehe, I think I remember doing that to my mother. I honestly don't know if there really was anything specific that would make me do what I was supposed to do - at that point in life you're pretty carefree and oftentimes threats of future punishment (no dessert after dinner) are too abstract to comprehend (though she'll wish she had done it when it comes to be after-dinner-time) and at-the-moment punishment will just propel her into a fussy uncooperative mood instead of a pleasant (but still unhelpfully uncooperative) mood. All things considered (and with my prolific experience in parenting to back me up on this), the at-the-moment punishment is probably the most likely to be effective, probably the best response, and quite possibly going to net you nothing at all but a bad attitude.
Mmmmmmm, five-year-olds.
Scary, but you have her nailed down exactly.
Of course, it didn't help me, but....
I live to serve.
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