My little girl’s vocabulary and speaking ability is amazing.
Her pronunciations are hilarious.
She’s a fresh 4 years old (literally, 4 years and one month), so she sounds like a baby that talks really well.
She keeps surprising me.
A Problem to Nip in the Bud
At the moment, she has an issue with talking back. Correction: it’s my issue. I have a problem with her talking back.
It’s a pretty clear attention-getting move. Unfortunately, she has some kind of attraction to negative attention. Like finding a person’s button and pushing it.
I give an instruction to the kids and tell them they can respond with ‘OK’ or “Yes/no sir”.
She says ok loudly and sarcastically, says “Fine!”, or even tells me “No.”
Someone is letting her get away with this kind of crap and making my job harder. But that’s not something I can control.
My daughter and I have been working diligently nip this sh*t in the bud. Her time with me and family will help — the filter members who have kept the values of respecting parents and authority figures, of course.
Hard Pass
4 year olds who yell and/or talk back to their parents become teenagers that treat their parents like garbage and completely disrespect them.
Nope, we’re not going that route. I love these kids too much to let them grow up to be entitled assholes. Aren’t there enough in the world?