My do it!
Joni's favourite thing at the moment is doing, well, everything that we would normally do for her. Like buttering her toast "my do it!" or opening the fridge "my do it!" or putting toothpaste on her toothbrush "my do it!" or pressing the button to call a lift "my press it!". She's very independent, this can be a bit worrying crossing busy roads when she doesn't want to hold your hand (my cross it?). Of course we don't let her do that - just everything else.
She loves (doesn't every British kid?) CBeebies, and basically believes she has exclusive rights over the TV to watch this channel, so you can imagine each morning and evening when Daddy wants to watch the News (just the headlines!) there are some heated arguments between me and the little girl (I win, honest). Well, CBeebies ends at 7pm sharp each night, with a goodnight story. The screen then goes blank - Joni knows it's her bedtime. So the other night she wanders through to the bathroom, where I was shaving, it having just gone 7, and asked me (sooo nicely), "watch news Daddy?" - in other words, I'll watch the news with you now Dad, so long as I can stay up! I laughed so much, I actually did sit down and watch it with her. Pretty depressing stuff though, how could I explain to her how God had let schools collapse on hundreds of children like herself in Pakistan, if she had asked me? I've got a bit of time before she starts asking things like that I hope, but it wont be time enough. My spiritual bank balance is so low - happy am I who am in the red, since I will be put into the black?
She loves (doesn't every British kid?) CBeebies, and basically believes she has exclusive rights over the TV to watch this channel, so you can imagine each morning and evening when Daddy wants to watch the News (just the headlines!) there are some heated arguments between me and the little girl (I win, honest). Well, CBeebies ends at 7pm sharp each night, with a goodnight story. The screen then goes blank - Joni knows it's her bedtime. So the other night she wanders through to the bathroom, where I was shaving, it having just gone 7, and asked me (sooo nicely), "watch news Daddy?" - in other words, I'll watch the news with you now Dad, so long as I can stay up! I laughed so much, I actually did sit down and watch it with her. Pretty depressing stuff though, how could I explain to her how God had let schools collapse on hundreds of children like herself in Pakistan, if she had asked me? I've got a bit of time before she starts asking things like that I hope, but it wont be time enough. My spiritual bank balance is so low - happy am I who am in the red, since I will be put into the black?
posted by John Doran-Armstrong at 12:17 PM
1 Comments:
My 2 1/2yr old is going through that same stage right now, "my do it!" It is driving me crazy. Trying to put her in her carseat in the car can last 20 minutes between the, my climb in, my sit down, my buckle up......ARGH!!
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