By Macgill Frutchey
Does your preschool aged child have "selective" hearing sometimes?
Wow... my fingers had a hard time even typing such a ludicrous question.
To say that my 3 year old, or any other that I've ever known for that matter, can have selective hearing at times, would be incredibly generous.
Most days, I believe the more pertinent wording is "disregard every meaningless word that I just said, and do whatever the %*$& you want" hearing.
It simply must be too boring for our little ones to follow our directions the first time they are given. Likely they're thinking, "Why should I do what mommy says right now, when running away and watching her chase me is infinitely more fun?"
Whatever the cause, one thing remains when it comes to preschool aged children: Whatever we are laying down, they are only half-assed picking up.
If you happen to have a preschool aged child, then chances are, you have daily experience with some of the following predicaments, where your thoughts and theirs, don't even begin to match up.
Wow... my fingers had a hard time even typing such a ludicrous question.
To say that my 3 year old, or any other that I've ever known for that matter, can have selective hearing at times, would be incredibly generous.
Most days, I believe the more pertinent wording is "disregard every meaningless word that I just said, and do whatever the %*$& you want" hearing.
It simply must be too boring for our little ones to follow our directions the first time they are given. Likely they're thinking, "Why should I do what mommy says right now, when running away and watching her chase me is infinitely more fun?"
Whatever the cause, one thing remains when it comes to preschool aged children: Whatever we are laying down, they are only half-assed picking up.
If you happen to have a preschool aged child, then chances are, you have daily experience with some of the following predicaments, where your thoughts and theirs, don't even begin to match up.
WHAT You SAY VS.
WHAT Your PRESCHOOLER HEARs:
1.What You Say:
Please put on your shirt and grab your bag, we need to leave for school.
Please put on your shirt and grab your bag, we need to leave for school.
What Your Preschooler Hears:
Take off your pants and remove your diaper. Find one large box of cinnamon harvest cereal and tear it open as though you were raised by wolves, then sprint through the den attempting a yodeling yurchenko.
2.What You Say:
Hurry up and find your shoes, we have to leave here in 5 minutes.
Hurry up and find your shoes, we have to leave here in 5 minutes.
What Your Preschooler Hears:
Go find an old toy car that you've never shown interest in until this very moment. Decide that it's the most fantastic treasure you've ever discovered, and meticulously remove all 9 of the decorative stickers that adorn it.
Place 3 of them on the couch, 2 on your shirt, eat one, and stick the last 3 onto one of your twin brothers' legs.
$#*t yourself.
