My 2 year old daughter is absolutely obsessed with anything that has to do with elephants. Needless to say, she loves the new Telus commercials.
Her obsessions come and go, though, so we never spend a whole lot of money on them. First it was Winnie the Pooh, then it was Spot the Dog, then it was anything to do with monkeys, and now it's elephants. She has a stuffed elephant that she has to go to bed with, but other than that she doesn't have a whole lot of items that she gets too attached to.
As far as taking a hard line, damn, is that ever the hardest thing to do. Some days you just think "Aw, whatever, she can get away with it this once", some days you're just out of time and unable to deal with the problem, sometimes you're just too frustrated and figure it's better for you if she just gets her way. But in the end I think the hard line has to be taken. Pick your spots, obviously, you don't want to be fighting with the kid 24/7.
The hardest thing we have with our daughter is that she's terrible at playing by herself. She's fine if we're playing with her, but if we're not she'll colour for about 2 minutes and then come find one of us and bug us to no end. We're hoping this gets better when our second child comes in January, because my wife has a really hard time getting anything done during the day.
Any parents out there with a single kid that finds something to keep them busy for a half hour?
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