When Mallory gets grumpy and starts hitting me we always remind her to be “gentle” – and then she will rub my face or my hand. It’s pretty sweet because she’ll stroke both of my cheeks with both hands and look so cute. It’s hard because when she is asked to be gentle it’s because she was doing something naughty in the first place so I don’t want to reward the being gentle thing too much for fear that it will encourage her to hit me so she can rub my face after. Perhaps I am overthinking.
Anyway, the funny thing is that now if she is getting a little rough with a book or my phone or something, I say “ooh, be careful” and she looks at me and starts to gently stroking whatever she was being too rough with. I started laughing out loud in Best Buy when she was loving on my phone.
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Oh, and do you think this is bad?
Yesterday when Mallory & I walked in the house after school and after taking Cooper for a walk, the first thing she did both times was head straight for her keyboard and start typing away.
She’s already a computer nerd. I think I need to take a break from the laptop, at least while she’s awake.