The Mommyocentric model of the universe

[marydell]

Sometimes - most of the time - it's lovely that my son sees me as the prime mover of his universe.  Other times - today particularly - it's not so lovely. 

I really am not the reason your stomach has an owie, sweetie, and I actually do have to pee occasionally, and it is genuinely not my fault that there was no choo-choo on the way to school today.  And smacking me upside the head or clinging to my legs while emitting piercing sounds of woe won't change any of those things.

Comments

[bibliofile.livejournal.com]

WOE.

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

As for me, I am sorry there is no birthday cake in the house. (Their birthday is six months away, and we have been to no birthday parties lately.) And "screaming at me isn't going to change my mind" is now a catchphrase in the house.

[unhappytriad.livejournal.com]

Nothing useful to say about the issue in question, but here (http://www.ted.com/talks/deb_roy_the_birth_of_a_word.html) is a really cool TED talk by MIT language researcher Deb Roy in which his child learns to say "water".