Growing Pains

Have you noticed how kids, especially boys, go into different stages while growing up during the first 2 years. From birth to the first 6 months there is barely any kind of connection with the baby as they have no reaction and are mostly unaware of whats going on. But from 6 months on to a year, a relationship starts to solidfy and develop. You get excited about getting back home to play with him, he is cute and does funny things while making everyone smile. You enjoy carrying him on your shoulders and when you’re out he sits politely in his high chair. Then we get to the next stage from 12-18 months, as you can see im doing the stages the same way they label the baby clothes. At this point your angel of a son wants to rip the keys off your laptop, fiddle endlessly with your phone, and shove dvds into your media center, or in my case, the cordless phone into the subwoofer as well. Sitting at his high chair in a restaraunt is a difficult task if he is not hungry, and he regularly wants to stroll around and investigate. He still makes you laugh but is becoming stubborn and needs to be kept in check, but how?? Then we reach the stage of “toddler puberty”, from 18 months to 24 months. Now, he will smack you and everyone around if he doesnt get his way. He will pat you down to search you for your iPhone so he can unlock it and play with the Handgun App, even when you downloaded iTot Cards so he can learn with flash cards on your phone. Try and take him to cut his hair, he will instantly turn into the Tasmanian Devil and whirlwind his way through whoever stands in his way. As a father, sometimes you worry. But throughout, the answer given when you ask, “what do I do with him”? is “dont worry he is a boy, they are always like that and will grow out of it”. So until then, we just have to wait and see.

Good luck to all of you with boys starting to buy clothes labeled 12-18 months and onward.