By the time I dragged him and his big brother (who is still doing really well with the oil therapy and was awesome today in class and was most definitely not that kid in class today), I was pulling out my hair trying to figure out what was going on with my littlest one.
Somewhere on the interstate, it hit me. Little Bro IS 2 years old. He has a right to act nuts in the middle of a class. He should be expected to be argumentative, naughty, loud, grumpy, disobedient, etc. And I'm not really supposed to get why. He's 2.
Surprisingly, this is kind of a new thing for me to focus on. Little Bro usually spends times with 3- and 4-year-olds, not 2 year olds, so I don't see a lot of the terrible 2s in action anymore. Even more deceiving, Little Bro has the soul of an 80-year-old man and a vocabulary to match. Quite simply, I forget he is only 2 because in so many ways he doesn't act like a 2 year old. And that isn't a bad thing, but it makes it harder for me to keep age-appropriate expectations for him sometimes. I'm proud of him for being so mature and living up to high expectations, but I shouldn't begrudge him his rite of passage in toddlerhood, either.
I am thinking about teaching him to say "Mommy, please give me a break, I'm only 2." Considering he managed to learn to count to 3 in Korean without any prompting or help after learning it in Korean class today while his head was spinning in circles, I think he could knock that sentence out no problem.
Ahhh...the terrible two's. You'll get through it, but I agree-Little Bro seems a LOT older than he acutally is:).
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