I'm at a loss. I have to stop everything and ask myself "How do I handle this exactly?" This exactly, is the tantrum, the defiance, the rebellion - already - of a two something year old child. I know I complained before, but this is otherworldly. This is something I didn't expect from my usually mellow child (ha, you say, wait until the pre adolescent years, then the teenage years, then the college years - I know, I know, it can't possibly get easier from here): such howling, such screaming, such insubordination, such behavior usually reserved for places like church, super markets and mall department stores happening right at home on a Sunday night.
The bravado of it all, the audactiy, the horror of being slave to your emotions and being reduced to grunting and cave talk when asking for something that you know you aren't allowed to have and wanting it NOW! All I can do after a while is sit there in a heap and marvel at how long a two year old can cry and scream with resolve and without a sign of giving up. If only we as adults were as aggressive in attaining our goals in the same fashion. I'm pooped and beat and there's a ringing in my ears.
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