(Believe it or not, this is a fake cry. see, I tld you she was good.)
Today, like any other day, GiGi hits me. She flails around or smacks me (along with
the bed, books, chair, doll, etc) out of frustration and a myriad of other
reasons Im not quite sure of. I am 100%
positive that this is just some sort of a toddler phase that we will outgrow soon. In the meantime, GiGi has decided to pick up
on the word “sorry” to make up for all the hitting she’s doing.
I started teaching her that when we hit (we meaning her) that we need to say “sorry.”
She caught on abnormally quick to the right moments for the correct
opportunity to say “sorry.” The first 40
times she said it, it was heartfelt and I think we both cried during the
apology. Recently, she has begun to say
it, fake cry, and then hit again.
Somewhere along the lines of meaning the apology and faking
it, she decided that if she simply said the words, it must be okay to continue
doing what she was doing before I reprimanded her. So, now that she has figured out the effects
of one “sorry mommy”, on said mommy, she is abusing this get-out-of-jail-free
like phrase. We seem to be back to
square one with things like kicking me at the dinner table and then apologizing
WHILE kicking some more.
Maybe I’m aiding the little vixen in her actress like ways
and unsympathetic like protests of guilt and genuine apologies because I laugh every
single time she pretends to cry. So I
guess I deserve my thigh full of bruises, right?
