Jim, the only 4 year olds who sit still and behave are heavily medicated, abused, or retarded, or all 3.
4 year olds fidget. Bright, inquisitive, friendly 4year olds fidget a LOT.
My mother had the same delusion about "other children". Mostly from Competitive Childrearing Bragging Crap from other parents. It was all lies. ("My child was toilet trained at eight months!")
Thus, psychiatry from the age of three for me and Nate. And heavy psychotropics. See how much good that did us? Whee.
Oh and BTW, the psychiatrist who drugged us at such a young age is on trial currently for voluntary manslaughter by medical malpractice: it was inevitable. He killed a couple of kids by over-medicating them.
So, not so much with the worrying about Miss M's behavior. She's just...four. You can relax now.
***Snort*** Now, when ALEX behaves like that, I do get a bit upset, being that he's.....older (Ain't tellin'). And yes, I do say "Alex, you are acting like MARIA! And she has an excuse because she's FOUR, what's YOURS???"
So, there ya go. Trade ya. Or...wait. No, that wouldn't work.
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Date: 2007-01-01 11:05 pm (UTC)4 year olds fidget. Bright, inquisitive, friendly 4year olds fidget a LOT.
My mother had the same delusion about "other children". Mostly from Competitive Childrearing Bragging Crap from other parents. It was all lies. ("My child was toilet trained at eight months!")
Thus, psychiatry from the age of three for me and Nate. And heavy psychotropics. See how much good that did us? Whee.
Oh and BTW, the psychiatrist who drugged us at such a young age is on trial currently for voluntary manslaughter by medical malpractice: it was inevitable. He killed a couple of kids by over-medicating them.
So, not so much with the worrying about Miss M's behavior. She's just...four. You can relax now.
***Snort*** Now, when ALEX behaves like that, I do get a bit upset, being that he's.....older (Ain't tellin'). And yes, I do say "Alex, you are acting like MARIA! And she has an excuse because she's FOUR, what's YOURS???"
So, there ya go. Trade ya. Or...wait. No, that wouldn't work.