Parenting a Toddler: 201 – The Self Tutorial

I started writing this post with an entirely different idea in mind. I was going down the road of how, in the past, I had changed the “twos” from terrible to terrific. In sight of that, I had gone back to my original blog to dig up the link for my Terrific Twos post – and once I found it, I found a whole host of other posts. In a bizzare world, there was the Hina of yesteryear, parenting a toddler and being honest about the experience. I must have spent a good few hours reading my own entries while nodding and shaking my head. It was hilarious, saddening, entertaining, but most of all – eye opening.

So I HAVE done this before, and it WAS hard then too! Who would have thought! All this while, I had spent telling myself that Ayzah was just a little terrorist, harder than Iman had been, but the truth is… Iman was just as bad. So Kudos to Ayzah for not being as much of a trouble maker as I had made her out to be! And shame on me for not seeing it before.

The series of posts that I managed to read through really enlightened me as a parent. I’ve done this before, it’s a familiar road, I have the directions, I just need to travel the journey, and it’s going to be up to me to enjoy the scenery along the way. I am leaving you girls with the link to my Terrific Two’s  entry. When you read it last, it must have made little to no sense at all. So go back and read it again, and now, as you all stand in the same shoes as me, it should have a lot more meaning.