i've just shown myself up again outside school by telling my disabled dd to 'walk properly and stop mucking around'. She nearly 3 and has cp, uses a kaye walker and is clever enough to know how to wind me up.
Everywhere i go people tell me how sweet she is and 'isn't she doing well' but she is still a normal toddler with the ability to wind me up. today someone stopped to let us cross the road and she then decided to go really slowly across the road and then stop in the middle to admire the sky. Meanwhile, cars waiting to drop off their own kids etc so I end up shouting and then people look at me like the evil bitch who's shouting at the disabled kid. . Next she decided that instead of walking on the pavement where she's stable she would career off onto the bank , where she fell over and landed in the mud. I had asked her to walk properly but being a toddler she made her own mind up.
People look at me like I'm a real cow but just because she is disabled doesn't make her exempt from pissing me off and deliberately mucking around. It would help if I could park nearer the school but of course it's full of people parked on the yellow lines without a disabled badge. I think from now on I am going to have to put her in the pushchair again but it's a real shame as she really enjoys using her kaye walker.
I'm feeling really hormonal as newly pregnant as well which doesn't help. I do love her but refuse to allow her to get away with stuff that I wouldn't have let her big sister do. If she wasn't using a walking frame it would be perfectly acceptable to tell off a toddler for mucking around when crossing the road but as it is, I get the looks like I am the cow from hell. .