"Am I Spoiling Him?"

Here we go….it’s time to start karate!

My 4 year olds first class is tonight. He gets to dress up in his little karate uniform, with his white belt, and all!

He is so excited that he didn’t want to go to preschool this morning. I reminded him that he would be having karate class tonight without thinking that he had no concept of time.

Of course he asked, “Can we go right now?”

I had to try to explain to him that it didn’t start until tonight. If anyone has ever tried to explain the concept of time to a 4 year old, you know how it went.

I have found, through the advice of my readers, that this time should be spent doting over my 4 year old. We are spending a lot of quality time together.

Here’s my problem……….

For some reason, I have been taking him to buy a new toy every night. It’s not that I feel like I have to buy his love. I think that I just run out of things to do.

So, we go to either Target or Toys R Us, usually get a new train for his GeoTrax set, and take it home and set it up.

He is really into toy trains! He’s got the GeoTrax set and the Thomas Take Along set. He LOVES them.

For now, I’ll try not to worry too much about spoiling him. There will come a point to where he’ll expect it though.

Oh, and if you haven't read my previous posts, you may want to go back and read some of them so that you can see why this is important to me.

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"Movie Mayhem 2"

Well, I did it! I made the bold decision to take my 4 year old back to the movies.

I decided that I would give him another chance to “act right” in the theater. If you don’t know what I’m referring to, scroll down and read the entry called “Movie Mayhem”.

I decided to pick him up from preschool early and take him to see Ratatouille or Rabittouille as he likes to call it.

We stocked up on candy and one drink and in we went. I have to say that I was nervous. I was tired and not really ready for a fiasco like the last one.

But, I wanted to have some one on one time with him and see how he would do.

Before we went into the theater, I gave him the speech about not talking out loud and not drinking his entire drink all within the first 5 minutes.

You see, he HAS to have something to drink while he’s at the movies. He’s always got to have something to drink. He’s like a camel in the desert.

We found a seat, in the front row (so that I don’t have to climb up and down the stairs every time he needs to potty) and sat down.

Immediately, he starts talking very loudly. He says, “It’s taking too long to come on. When will it be over?” This was before the movie even started.

He pretty much talked as loudly as he wanted throughout the entire movie. I would tell him each time to whisper or just be quiet.

A few times I had to take him out of the theater b/c he couldn’t hear me telling him to be quiet, LOL.

We ended up going “potty” only three times. This is a small miracle! Anyone that knows him will understand. For him to last 2 hours and only go three times? That’s just crazy!

I do have to say that the movie was very good. I liked it. I don’t think it’s just for kids. I’m by no means a movie critic, but I would suggest taking children from the age of 2-12 to see it.

By the time the movie was over, we were more than ready to go. Out the door we went with our pillow, blanket, and my umbrella of course!

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