Wicked Witch of the West

I am riddled with guilt!

Yesterday I snapped.

I had enough of Kaylin's constantly whining for everything!  she has become so cheeky and because she's so cute she gets away with it and yesterday I said "No more!".

I smacked her and put her on her "naughty mat" in the bathroom.

I could hear her screaming and yelling "MUMMY!!" over and over and I didn't budge.  I was so angry, I had enough.  I was adament that she would spend her full 3 minutes in time out. 

I have an egg timer in the bathroom for such occassions and I didn't even bother switching in on.

Eventually I could hear Kaylin in the bathroom  sobbing and trying to switch the egg time on.  Once the bell went off she kept saying "I'll be good, Mummy! I'll be GOOD!".

I didn't budge.

I made her stay in there for three minutes.

When I went in eventually she was blinded by snot and tears.  I explained to her why she was put in the naughty mat.  I made her apologies.  She hugged me and through her snot and tears said "Sowwy Mummy".

Gosh I feel like utter CRAP today thinking back on her little sad face. 

I can only imagine how I looked through her eyes - shouting and screaming like a banshee.  A giant witch, flinging her arms around bellowing at the top of her lungs and eventually smacking her. 

I must've frightened the shit out of her.

I wish I could take it all back.

Do You Want Some Cheese with that Whine?

Dictionary Definition: whine (hwīn, wīn)

v. whined, whin·ing, whines
v.intr.
1. To utter a plaintive, high-pitched, protracted sound, as in pain, fear, supplication, or complaint. 2. To complain or protest in a childish fashion.
3. To produce a sustained noise of relatively high pitch: jet engines whining.

Do your kids do it?

Please tell me I'm not the only mother that wants to throttle her 2 year old when she starts with the long and high-pitched mouse-like sounds? I want to tear my hair out and pluck my own eyeballs out with a rusty tweezers!!

Surely, it is not just me that wants to just jump off the face of the earth when that fretful habitually complaining starts? It infects me as insidiously as does cancer or any other terrible disease.

I have theorized that there's a recessive gene that seems to be present in about 99 percent of young children : The Whining gene. If only DNA or some other scientific phenomenon could account for why so many of our kids resort to whining when they want something.

Stop Whining in 4 easy steps

http://childparenting.about.com/cs/behaviorproblems/a/whining.htm

or MY THEORY to crush The Whining Gene - just buy a good quality set of earplugs. (If it was only that simple)