Ugh! I truly hate the park at the moment. DD is very headstrong at 17 months. She has to go on the slide NOW the swing NOW the climbing frame NOW NOW NOW. As she is still very wee I obviously have to help her up.... this is where it all goes horribly wrong.
I make the truly STUPID mistake of picking her up before it is her turn. Obviously then she flies into a complete paddy and starts to try and hit me as she perceives I am holding her back from what she wants. I am obviously very stupid as this is a regular occurence (sp?)
Picture the scene, DD decides she wants to go on the merry-go-round so we go and pay our 50p but then we have to wait for it to finish and stop so we can get on..tantrum.. we finally climb on with DD choosing the attractive pink 2 seater sports car which most post-partum bum is NEVER going to it in. However, we squish in much to her annoyance that I am in too... tantrum... off we go but DD won't keep still, picture an eel on a merry-go-round if you will.. so she slips and bashes her sore mouth (k9 teeth coming too).. tantrum.. then the ride stops and she really looses it..... sadly so do I, it has all been too much and my forced calm turns into park banshee.
Not my proudest moment.
Now feel hideous, how can the book make it sound so easy when in practice the last thing you feel like doing is saying, calmly yet firmly, no darling, we don't hit other people do we? It hurts..... or try to scratch out Mummy's eyes for that matter.
Sob.