The first day of being the evil parent, I don’t think many people forget that day. It’s the day when we first reprimand our children or when we find it is fair to hold them accountable for the mistakes they make. When was that day? For some it was the day their child finally knew what the word “No!” meant, for others it happened to be at the potty after the sixteenth poopy diaper of the day.
Don’t forget that day, they won’t and it will be in their subconscious forever. It is important to know that how we communicate with our children from the beginning is not taken as serious as it should be.
I felt the first day my daughter lost a little faith in me, it was a day when I felt she question my reason and even left me breathless. That day was her birthday and I’ll never forget it, she ran to me after her second birthday a gave me a huge kiss.
Children when they are young and can not speak follow what I believe to be an intuitive and responsive stage. Where things make sense only through actions a social cues, it’s beautiful to have a conversation with a child while they giggle and scream at you.
A baby shares small cues but are not obvious to all parents. Hunger, pain, restlessness, gassyness, and more can all be seen in a child’s cues. The best way to explain it would be to do an iPhone Analogy.
When they are gassy some children have a tendency of kicking flapping their arms and even show signs of possibly being colic. When babies are hungry they even seem to have a different cry that differs from the cry they would make if they had a soil diaper.
Babies can also give us signals to let us know that they are crying about different things almost like a cell phone is able to Tell us notifications from different applications.
Sometimes noticing the pitch of a child crying can immediately let you know the impression they are trying to give you so you may satisfy them. Think of babies like an iPhone with an alarm clock that goes off every hour and can only be turned off if they are fed, have no soiled diapers and are satisfied.
It is hard but anything is possible. -G.Grande
The Grande Family 