Staying Afloat

I love spending time at Mom and Dad’s. I love that Laura and Warren will have a great relationship with them. I love that it gets me out of the area for a few days so I don’t go stir crazy. However, I don’t love the adjustment when we get back. It is nice when we are down there that Laura and Warren each get undivided attention all day. Mom will take one and I’ll take the other. However, when we get back home, Laura expects it to be the same. She doesn’t do well with sharing the attention again. The two days that I was home with both kids while Robert worked this week were not so good. Laura would whine and cry at the smallest things. She wouldn’t use her words real well either to tell me what she wanted. For example, she would purposely drop something on the floor, then throw a fit because it dropped; she would fall part way to the floor, on purpose again, then look right at you and say “Fall down!” and start crying. Let’s just say it got old VERY quickly.  I know that she is doing these things to get my attention.  It is just hard to know exactly how to discipline her then.  Part of me wants to send her to her room, but if she is trying to get attention and then ends up even further away, I feel like it will just make it ten times worse.  I haven’t had to do timeouts with her for a while.  Maybe I can do that.  She can still be out here, but she will learn what she is doing is not the correct way to get attention.  Ugh, can’t they come with instruction manuals?!

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