Big afternoon for Mallory today!
- We broke out the pottery wheel that Grandpa gave her for her birthday. I’d told her she had to wait until it was warm enough to do it outside and today was the day. We failed miserably trying to make anything out of the clay. I’ll make Rick try again with her tomorrow.
- Mallory tried rollerblading for the first time today too. She was PETRIFIED at first but quickly got brave and made her way up & down the sidewalk with both me and Rick. She was so proud of herself.
- This isn’t really a “first” but it’s a relevant piece of the story. I painted her toenails & fingernails with “magenta pink” and she requested a glittery topcoat. But the glittery topcoat makes her polish chip off in about an hour so I told her we weren’t going to use the glittery topcoat.
- Fast forward about two hours and we come Mallory’s latest “first”: she lied. Not a little lie but a blatant lie following blatant disregard of my wishes.
She was coloring at her little desk and I went to check what she was doing. I noticed she had FREAKING GLITTER on her fingernails. WHA??? I asked how it got there and she said she didn’t know. I asked if she or daddy put it on her fingernails and she thought for a minute and said “daddy did it”. I hunted Rick down and he said he didn’t know what I was talking about. When I came back to Mallory FUMING, she had the NERVE to ask “what did daddy say?”. Um, what did you think he was going to say?
I removed all her nail polish, glitter topcoat and all, from her toes & fingers. I told her that was for not listening to me when I said “NO” about the glitter topcoat. Then she got a spanking for the lying part.
I feel like such a failure as a mom. This sucks. She’s only FOUR! What is going on??
Learning experience. She’ll be fine.
It’s the start of what all parents go through. You are not a failure, all children learn by experience and this is just one of the experiences. Welcome to the club.