The occasion: a friend's birthday party. The competition: musical chairs. Let the child personality analysis begin!
Lil' J got knocked out about half way through, and obediently sat out for the rest of the game, along with the other early departees. His mellow response in the face of rejection was in keeping with his "whatever, it's just a game" temperament. Live and let live. Peace, man. Have a great day. Z z z z z.
Alyssa, on the other hand, was NOT happy with coming in second. Second!! HMMPH!! "I HATE that game! I'm GLAD it's over!" Seething words, that luckily were spoken under her breath and only loud enough for me to hear, or she would have been sent away for the longest time-out in the history of all things child related.
There's an upside to the Diva dramatics - she's very achievement oriented, and barely bats an eyelash at working her butt off to attain mastery or success at something. The downside is that she's, uh, a little tightly wound.
Lil' Bro, on the other hand, will try something for awhile, and if it's too hard will make peace with the idea of NOT doing it, and move on to something else. "Mama, I'm all done wid dat." Z z z z z. He's super fun at parties though, and will never embarrass his mother. TERrific.
I've tried helping them both with varying degrees of no success. I'm not going to say I've thrown in the towel completely, but let's just say I have embraced a new strategy: hoping they can learn from each other!
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2.08.2009
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3 comments:
It's so funny to see how different our kids can be. My baby is only 6 months old, but already he's very much his own person, and different from his big sister in so many ways.
I actually take great comfort in the differences, I feel like they sort of let me off the hook. If my child has certain personality traits, at some level it's just who they are, and it's no reflection on my parenting. ;-)
LOL oh so true! Great point. They're born with their strengths and weaknesses already pre-programmed.
With us it's amusing too because my daughter is just like me and my son is just like my husband. They're like "mini-me's". It's been fun watching these familiar personalities develop from the beginning :)
They'll get the hang of it :)
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