I’m Living A Bill Cosby Routine!

April 22, 2007 by Dave.

And I mean his stand up stuff, not the Cosby Show crap.

Sophia needs to learn to listen to both her mother and me. She doens’t a lot of the time and doesn’t seem to care. Yestreday she’s in the car with me and I roll down the front and passnger side windows of the car (thank GOD I have automatic windows now!). Sophia asks her window to be rolled down a bit since she was hot. I do it and she stickes her hand out the window. I yell at her to keep her hands inside the car. She yanks them back in. A minute later, she’s doing it again and I yell at her again, this time saying I told you before to not do that. She tried to argue andI think I told her I wouldn’t watch a video she really likes at the house if she does that again. I pull into our driveway after shopping, roll up the windows and I hear Sophia cry out. I suddenly realize her hand got caught in the window. And why is that? Because she stuck her hand out the window again. She’s crying in pain in the back seat, a nice indent in the back of her hand, and my response to her: “Sorry, but next time keep your hands inside the damn car!”

Today we spent the afternoon in a great playground in the neighborhood, her favorite. I tell her that if she’s good and listens to me, we’ll get ice cream later. I was going to do it too even at one point when she had a bit of a tantrum when she couldn’t work her tricycle correctly (she’s learning). But later she’s in the sandbox playing. It’s a communal place so everyone shares with everyone else, unless they brought their own pails and they have to go home. Sophia’s playing with a gigantic green pail, putting sand in it for a sandcastle. However the person whose pail that is is leaving. I’m there and we try to get the pail from Sophia, transfering sand from that pail to hers (yeah, I brought hers too), but she wants that green one. I give her her pail and she throws it on the floor, sand and all, saying the other pail was hers. Now some other kid nearly hit Sophia with a similar pail earlier and while her mom made her apologize, he kind of got off scott free. So I tell her that she can’t do that. I was goign to hand her the pail back to her, but she grabbed at it. I could tell she just wanted it to throw it again. I tell her that if she throws it again, we’re not getting ice cream. I give her the pail and she jsut tosses it away– not far, but she tossed it away. So I told her we’re not getting ice cream. She had a fit and kept crying about not getting ice cream. I reminded her that she didn’t listen to me; she said “I’m listening now.” I kept telling her too late and I’m not going to reward her for not listening to me before. Note that this was a continuous argument and I’m trying to use logic on a four-year-old. Needless to say she didn’t get any ice cream.

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