Nicquee's Nook

Caring for Sick Children

It has been four days since my last post. I know, I have been missing in action. How are you doing? Well, I think you can already tell by this post’s title what I have been doing since the last time I told you I was PMS-ing, huh?

Early last week, Alex, my eldest, was already showing signs of colds. She could have gotten it from school or it can be due to our weird weather. I did not worry much as soon as I saw the signs because she is a big girl now and can easily tell us what is wrong with her.

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Concept of Heaven

It all started with the Philippine TV Show, 100 Days to Heaven. The little boy named Kevin was hit by a car for saving her bestfriend, Ana (lead role). He has weak heart and everyone in his family did not expect he will go that soon. My daughter saw that episode. And since then, she kept on asking where people who dies go.

I was not yet really ready to answer that. I started with the good angel and bad angel where the former lives in heaven with Papa God, the creator, and the former in hell, where everything is bad and ugly. Thankfully she grasped the idea well. So I told her, people who die go to heaven. Period.

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My 20-Month-Old Bites!

She also pinches and pulls hair.

I know that she does this out of frustrated and excitement most of the time. I also know that this is just a phase, and is normal for their age. It is just that I cannot help but be ashamed to the parents and guardians of her victims specially that there are times when she is the one moving towards the kids only o pinch their nose or bite them somewhere.

Explaining what is happening to my 5-year-old is also very challenging since she got used to being the center of attention and owned her toys to herself for quite some time. She is still adjusting and I know it will take more patience for me to help her understand.

I also need to work on my temper since it is always easy to shout than to pause for a while when frustration sets in, right? Double that with PMS and I go nuts!

The game plan is to let Alex understand sharing and make her avoid getting things from Max so that latter will not bite or hurt in any way the former. I have been telling Max that biting hurts but she does not seem to care. So I have to think of other ways how I can communicate to her that biting is not good. Got suggestions?

Did your kid went through this phase too? Share with me your stories and your tips.