The Day Your Child Develops an Attitude:
That day that every parent seems to warn you about has finally arrived – our son has stamped his independence! You know, it got to a point with Lincoln (our 18month yr. old) where life was pretty good. We tell him to do something, he’d do it. We were also able to spoon feed him just about anything we dealt up…. but what the hell, who let this kid suddenly develop his own opinion!? That’s not fair! About 2months ago, Lincoln began really coming into his element and truly made us realise that he is growing up so quickly. He began wanting to feed himself, which eventually led to us purchasing an art smock to prevent too much unavoidable mess (hey, it actually works! Try it!). And the backfire with food was that he also began realising what the ‘good’ food was, and the stuff he hated – even though we were able to feed him this stuff earlier in the year. So no more carrot sticks and lemon! haha This naturally bought on a bunch of new struggles and huddles as Lincoln began to stam
