{"id":13006,"date":"2018-10-01T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T17:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?p=13006"},"modified":"2018-09-28T15:56:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T20:56:00","slug":"the-struggles-of-having-a-2-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/?p=13006","title":{"rendered":"The struggles of having a 2 year old"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Ah, that sweet smile.<\/p>\n

His contagious belly laugh.<\/p>\n

His growing vocabulary.<\/p>\n

How he wraps all 5 of his fingers around my one as we walk places.<\/p>\n

They way he says, “Mama, where are you?” when he wakes up from his naps.<\/p>\n

These are all things I love about our sweet Levi.\u00a0 Sometimes I need to take a moment and remind myself of the charming characteristics he has.\u00a0 Especially on days that he is pushing the “Terrible 2’s” to the limit.<\/p>\n

Like this past week.<\/p>\n

He started screaming when we would put him down for his naps.\u00a0 Not an “I’m hurt” scream, but rather an “I am angry and will scream at you until you get me up” scream.\u00a0 An ear piercing, nail-on-chalkboard scream, that cuts to my very soul–igniting my anger.\u00a0 Sigh.\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 That scream.\u00a0 And that boy has will-power made of steel.\u00a0 One day he screamed for almost 2 hours before he finally gave up.\u00a0 TWO HOURS!\u00a0 And before you get all worried and sad for him and think I’m a terrible parent for letting him scream that long–yes, I did check on him.\u00a0 When I would walk in the door he would stop.\u00a0 He’d start talking to me and playing.\u00a0 Then as soon as I would turn my back to him or put my hand on the doorknob, he would inhale and resume the screaming.\u00a0 See?\u00a0 Just a plain temper tantrum.<\/p>\n

I’m not a fan of this stage.<\/p>\n

We’ve gone through our arsenal of\u00a0 disciplining tactics–to no avail.\u00a0 And by the 4th child we have quite a lot of these tactics!\u00a0 But with God’s grace and a lot of prayer and a lot of coffee we will prevail!\u00a0 I will say that by Friday he was getting better.\u00a0 Not done totally, but it does help that he’s started to lose his voice (from all that adorable screaming, ha!).\u00a0 I’m hopeful that we’re rounding the corner here.<\/p>\n

If you think of it, say a prayer for him.\u00a0 And for me.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ah, that sweet smile. His contagious belly laugh. His growing vocabulary. How he wraps all 5 of his fingers around my one as we walk places. They way he says, “Mama, where are you?” when he wakes up from his naps. These are all things I love about our sweet Levi.\u00a0 Sometimes I need to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13006"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13006"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13010,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13006\/revisions\/13010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}