It’d be lovely if Nadia could choose a less panick-inducing snack…but try as I may (and I do), I cannot dissuade her from chomping into a big, bite-chunks-off-and-choke, apple.
This habit of mine of having concerns like this, came out when I was filling out this questionnaire called Ages + Stages that tells you whether your child is on track developmentally (mine is: phee-ew…which allayed my constant brain chatter of: Am I a good mother? Am I doing this right? Should she be doing THAT? Am I a good…you get what I’m talking about. So it stopped that…for one night. Well, like an evening. A new day. New concerns. More chatter). Anyways.
One of the questions asked: Do you have any concerns regarding your child? (Or something to that effect.) I answered truthfully: YES!
Every day I have concerns: Is that a dry cough? Swine flu. It must be swine flu. Oh! Are you about to fall off that crazy play structure that should have been removed in 1962? But you’re having fun, OK, carry on. And: Are you choking on that apple???? Of course you are. You’re only one! With seven and a half teeth. Give me that thing. Oh, you want it back? Really. Can’t I give you apple sauce instead (thrown in my face). Fine. Take the apple. Just don’t choke. OK? We have a deal??? Deal?
So I explained in the questionnaire (rather neurotically) that, yes, I have concerns. And they’re real. For about 30 seconds. Then I breathe and realize, I’m probably just a normal mum. Right????? We’re all like this. Tell me….we’re all like this. Like you could take an apple away from a kid who’s already perfected her death glare (and this is just the side view):
Found your blog thru clevercycles.com & loved this post, esp the last photo. My daughter has that glare and MUST be given 1 apple per day or I’ll incur her wrath. She’s 2.5yo now and has been doing the apple thing since I can’t remember when. Thank goodness New Seasons has organic apples for $3/3lbs!
By: KYouell on January 11, 2010
at 7:59 pm