Friday, April 22, 2005

As an AP parent, I hate to....

I hate to put baby "locks" on the doors, and use a harness on Priya. Sadly I had to move Priya into Ravi's room yesterday, and move Ravi into my room. All that is in that great big room is a tiny toddlers bed and a tiny 4 year old...Priya. At night time she keeps Lakshmi awake, and in the morning she wakes Lakshmi back up again. They go through the house doing this and that, the whole time I am sleeping. They had eaten pancakes from the night before, candy from the Easter basket. Everyone says I have the world of patience, but I don't feel it. Yesterday afternoon I lost it. I moved Ravi's bed into my room (and had to move some things out of my room to do that). I moved Priya's bed from my room into Ravi's room.

This morning, the girls woke up again and jumped all over the room, opening the blinds and finally leaving their rooms. Today Priya cut Lakshmi's hair again! They both ate the candy (which was on a high shelf). It just never stops. I am worn out with it. So I broke the AP cardinal rules of treating children with respect and I bought door locks (the kind that covers the door handle and you have to squeeze just right) and a harness for Priya when we go shopping.

I tried it on Priya tonight just to see how it works and she was crying hysterically. Great! I feel awful!

Well, we will see how tomarrow morning goes. If Priya finds her way out of the room again, I will just cry!

Jyotsna

1 comment:

Indiamommy said...

So how did Abi respond to it? Priya acted like a caged animal! She went ballistic! Lakshmi thought it was cool, course cause it will keep Priya away from Lakshmi. : )

The locks worked this morning. But Priya is so smart and coy, I know she will figure the lock out very soon.