Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Humbling moments:

Realizing that your toddler is pulling your chain and getting you to come into his room after bedtime for various reasons (fussing about having moved monitor camera and wanting it back where it should be, fussing about having pulled curtain off of wall and wanting it hung back up, etc.), the mother decides to ignore crying/fussing the next time when said toddler moves monitor camera again. After fussing has escalated and stayed loud for way too long (but mother can't see that anything is wrong because camera has been moved), mother goes in to child to find arm stuck in crib rail and extremely distraught. Even though she had the best intentions, she feels guilty. As far as I can tell, motherhood is one giant judgment call where you can never really be sure you're doing the right thing. Oh, and I love my video monitor. The judgment calls would be even harder without it.

1 comment:

lsm said...

The one time Chris and I ignored the yells coming from the twins' room for way too long was the time that Allyriane had shut her arm in the bedside table drawer. She was just tall enough to reach inside it when it was open...
lsm