It is just another usual, routine, Sunday evening scenario: Abhi and I are standing at the door with shoes on and our arms loaded with bags, saying goodbye to my in-laws, and Rumi is refusing to come with us; she wants to stay there. This happens every weekend. Whether she visits my in-laws or my…
Category: The Terrible Twos
Paying attention: An important parenting lesson from my two-year old
Rumi has recently turned two and I do not know how to describe the phase she is in right now because “the Terrible Twos” does not even begin to cover it. Yesterday, she threw a temper tantrum because her stuffed animal would not shut its stitched felt eyes. This morning, an hour of wailing followed…
Coping with the Terrible Twos Part 2: On the toddler side
In the previous post I wrote about things that are helping me maintain a semblance of sanity. Here, I’m noting down some tips and ideas that are of help while dealing with Rumi. Temper Tantrums Temper tantrums are a result of and also result in great frustration. Rumi gets frustrated because she wants to do…
Coping with the Terrible Twos Part 1: On the parent side
I am blogging after what seems like a million years, and the reason is exhaustion. I wake up in the mornings after a good nine hour sleep, only to find myself bleary eyed and ready to hit the sack again. And I don’t need a doctor to prescribe haemograms and ultra TSH tests to detect…
Rumi, a SAHT (Stay-At-Home-Toddler)
Rumi turned two in April and she does not go to a preschool or daycare as yet. A perfectly normal fact, right? Except that it does not seem perfectly natural and normal because I don’t know any other two year old who does not go to either a preschool or daycare or activity center of…
Structuring your day with your toddler: Tips and activities to keep them engaged
Rumi and I are both home with each other 24/7. With about ten to eleven hours of sleep and about two hours of napping, we still get 20 hours of time with each other. Subtract the hours spent on mealtimes and you have 15 hours in a day to fill with playtime activities. Since toddlers…