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shal


I am sure every mother has or will experience a time they wish they could turn invisible

Date written 18/12/2008 14:54:41

I am sure every mother has or will experience a time they wish they could turn invisible, I know I have. Shopping at Kmart when I had slipped out a small toot, just as we were nearing the checkouts. Lots of people in the checkout lines my son started yelling, poo poo and kept waving his hands in front of his face! Everyone turned their attention to me. I was sooo... embarrassed. He was laughing his head off, which made me laugh. To make matters worse I was laughing so hard and had to pee, so I was standing there crossing my legs and dying of embarrassment. That will be one shopping trip I will never forget.

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Natalie


Last week I took my son to his 2 year Plunket visit

Date written 18/12/2008 14:53:02

Last week I took my son to his 2 year Plunket visit. Normally Sean goes to daycare with his Dad in the morning, but on this day the routine was different because I had taken some time off work to take him to his Plunket visit. After about 20 minutes with Michele our Plunket nurse Sean had had enough of the confines of a small room, being measured, weighed etc. It was time to go. As Sean is at the "independent stage" we had a bit of a discussion around Sean putting his own shoes on (can't quite manage it himself yet, but determined to try on his own!). As usual it was time for some distraction techniques ... I mentioned that his friend Ben would be wondering why he wasn't at daycare yet, that did the trick, and I was allowed to help with getting the shoes, we got into the car and made the short trip down the road to daycare.
Once inside daycare, Sean, without so much as a backward glance, dropped my hand, set off at a gallop and headed straight outside to join the rest of the children. I followed more sedately to just catch the dance of joy my son and Ben were engaged in at seeing each other - "Benny boy" said Sean, "Seany" said Ben as they jumped up and down on the spot and flung their arms around each other. I can't explain the wave of emotions that came over me witnessing this - my eyes welled up, in that moment it dawned on me that my little boy, who I still think of as a baby, was his own independent little person, with good friends, Ben being a very special friend, and able to express his joy at friendship just as adults can (but don't do nearly so freely). Wow, how special it is to be a Mother.

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Sally


A few years back

Date written 18/12/2008 14:51:36

A few years back, my son didn't have the ability to give me backchat as at one, he was naturally too young. Conversation used to flow freely, sentences like "boo, boo, baa, gaa, gaa, ma, ma, da, da" were fairly common at the time. There were no issues at one, not even at two (we never got to learn what the famous 'two year old tantrums' were), and at three, he was just adorable and we could hold a real conversation and have lots of fun together.
Then something happened. Sef turned four. Suddenly there are tantrums and plenty of frustration which naturally expected when you are moving from a toddler to a little boy. Lots of love and beautiful things are said but there are certainly just as many hard times for him now. The gorgeous conversations we had when he was three years old are now replaced with, "i don't love you", "i hate my toys, you can throw them all out", "i don't want to talk to you". etc. As you can imagine, the list goes on.
But there is one sentence that sticks in my memory more than any other and it was said through tears and yelling and it went something like this: "I don't want to be your son anymore.......but you can still be my mummy if you want to". Yes son, I_d love to always be your mother.

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