Natasha is now 19months old. For the past 19months, I am thankful to God for blessing me with such a lovely daughter. As a baby, she has always been a smiley one.. As a toddler now, she is still smiley, but also very mischievious. Somehow I think she has inheritted both mine and Nic's stubbornness, which makes her super stubborn! She hasn't given me much problem except for her poor eating habits and now, her tantrums.
So now I am just wondering, what is a good parenting method? One that will make her listen and not do the wrong things.
To be honest, I am struggling within myself. I do not know if beating her will be an effective method especially since she is so stubborn. But then again, if I do not beat her, how else can I let her know the seriousness of my words? I have read alot of parenting links online and found that all of them seems to be saying beating is not the best method. Most website discourages beating. Well, if possible I would also not want to beat her. But sometimes it's so hard to control my anger (perhaps I should go for some anger management course).
Just the weekend that passed, I have already beaten her a few times: once for not eating and throwing tantrum when we don't give her the French fries she wanted; once for not eating and spitting out the food that's in her mouth (which she is most probably doing it deliberately); and once for not wanting to take her medication and spitted out all of them. Actually, looking at these incidents, I think the only issue that I have with her is her poor eating habits! Gosh, i guess it's time for me to stop feeding her!
I really feel sorry everytime I beat her, and I know I shouldn't have. But how else can I teach her not to spit out her food and to eat properly? Big sigh! Perhaps i really should let go and let her be. Probably she will know what's the best for herself?
Anyway this post is just for ranting purpose. Hopefully the next time when I read this post, I can say that I have managed to control my anger.
