Sometimes You Have to Laugh

Lana is generally a very sweet and happy little girl. Sometimes, however, she likes to remind me that she is also a toddler that wants things done her way. I try to be as accommodating as possible, but there are times when I just can’t do things her way. Like when it’s 20 degrees outside and all she wants to do is stand in the driveway pointing at the snowman, the birds, the planes, and the boys playing football until her nose turns black and falls off.

This is what it looks like when things don’t go her way:


I’m still not exactly sure how to handle these tantrums, other than to run get my camera and document them. In my quest for insight, I turned to an ever reliable source – Vicki Iovine. She was so helpful and funny in The Girlfriends’ Guide to Pregnancy that I was excited to find she also wrote a guide to toddlers. Here’s how she describes them:

“…they are the raw and uncensored examples of our human nature. They are the urges, frustrations, desires and fears that all of us feel, but they have absolutely no veneer of civilization to make them more palatable to their fellow human beings.”

Is that a great description, or what? I haven’t made it very far into the book so I still don’t have a strategy for dealing with tantrums, but I did find something to improve my mood. The author of one of my favorite blogs, The Sneeze, has a hilarious post about a Christmas experiment with his young child and Raisins. Enjoy.