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Kim's Diary Entries Diary Navigation: Choose A Diary Entry -------------------- Latest Entry: 9/20/00 -------------------- 9/13/00 9/6/00 8/17/00 8/16/00 8/8/00 8/2/00 7/18/00 7/13/00 6/28/00 6/20/00 6/6/00 5/23/00 5/17/00 5/10/00 5/3/00 4/25/00 4/19/00 4/10/00 3/28/00 3/22/00 3/15/00 3/8/00 3/1/00 2/23/00 2/16/00 2/10/00 2/2/00 1/24/00 1/13/00 1/5/00 12/29/99 12/15/99 12/7/99 12/1/99 -------------------- Kim's Introduction

August 2, 2000

Hi there. Sorry I missed my diary entry last week. I was too busy shoving cotton in my ears to drown out my whining toddler! There are days that Max can whine from sunrise to sunset. We are really trying to work with him and I think it's starting to work, but some days are really tough! We've started to just ask him, "Do you want to go to your room?" He will immediately answer no and then we say, "Then stop whining." About 65 percent of the time he'll ask his same question but without any whining. That's progress!

This approach is yet another issue that Ross and I have differing opinions on how it should be handled. While Ross is going along with my approach, he is still lacking in consistency. Before you have kids its very easy to proclaim how you're going to handle situations or discipline your child. Then when you actually have the child and need to put those philosophies to work, it becomes tough. Ross and I don't always see eye to eye on the way some of these issues should be addressed, even though we totally agreed on how we would handle them before we had kids! Does this sound familiar to anyone else?

Sometimes I get frustrated with Ross thinking he knows how to handle situations and I say "I know you're the dad, but I'm the MOM and I know what to do." He usually backs off then, but one of these days he's going to catch on and realize that I don't know anymore than he does!

Kim