Bad Toddler Behavior

If anyone has a toddler out there I'm sure you'll be able to identify with my post for today.

Toddler Behavior!!!

Yikes! Phoenix has always been a little tyrant. Screeching, screaming, and hitting when he didn't get his way. And positively delighting in all things DANGEROUS and DIRT.

I am seriously at the end of trying to figure out what to do.

We're at the point where going to restaurants, church, Target, or car rides make us look like the parents with the tot laid out in the aisles because they can't get candy.


He's as adorable as can be so of course it's hard to discipline him or tell him no. And don't even get me started on how cute he is when he tells me no back!

I picked up Secrets of the Baby Whisperer for Toddlers and I'm almost finished with and I am really hoping that these techniques will help us grab hold of the tantrums. 

 I don't want to be a housebound mommy!

What do you do to help get your toddling toddler to behave?

And the award for the worst toy goes to....

            The First Years 3-in-1 Kickin Coaster

After my post last week about the major toy overload it got me thinking to the worst toy I've bought since becoming a mom.

 This toy seemed like such a great idea when the email from came to me, but in hindsight it was a total waste of almost $80.

I think we used it 10 times, if that! Now it sits all lonely in a corner in his nursery. He uses it now more then when it was appropriate for his age!

If I'm in his room putting clothes away he'll get in it and stand up and start using the little toys as microphones. He does the same thing with the little bee car too.

I have a feeling though until he reaches the age of being able to tell me what he likes and doesn't like that I'll waste money on a lot of toys.

Often I'll be in Walmart, or Target or Toys R Us and looking to pick him up my customary "Mommy was out" gift and I'll stand in the toy aisle for like 20 minutes trying to figure out what to get him.

I'm not being biased when I say this, honestly I'm not. But Phoenix is very advanced for his age and so he's kind of in this "in between" stage with toys.

Most skills he's mastered and the ones he hasn't are much to far off.

Plus Phoenix has this "I'm waaaay to cool for toys mom" attitude.

Right now I have figured out two things he would be interested in, a broom and vacuum. He's obsessed with the broom and always wants to sweep and he loves my parents vacuum machine.

And nesting toys. His new thing is to go in the kitchen and get his cup and put the top on. I think it's his signal for juice. And he likes putting things inside other things. Like putting the grocery's back in the bag I just emptied.

So what was the worst toy YOU ever bought and what does YOUR little tot like to play with?

Top 10 Reasons I'm a bad mommy

My philosophy on blogging has always been to:

Be yourself. Be transparent.

Be random. Be you....regardless

So in that vain I'd like to be honest and make a post of the top 10 reasons that make me a very bad mommy.

10. I let my son sleep with blankets in his crib starting at about 4 or 5 months, completely ignoring the whole "no blankets! no bumpers! no nothing!" that other moms tend to follow. The good thing is. He's still alive and we've never had any problems....Well there was...

9. The time I went to check on him and his swaddle blanket was    wrapped on his head.....So for a bit I did stop that.

8. I let my son drink juice most of the day and always forget to give him water.

7. I just started remembering to brush his teeth daily.

6. I planned an over-the-top first birthday party, kept him up for hours, gave him an entire cake to himself, and completely "over-stimulated" him.

5. I'll probably let him keep his paci until he's 10. It's just a battle I don't want to fight. 

4. I let him play with pens. Yup. That's right. Writing pens. But only if the cap is on and I watch him like a hawk. Whatever it takes to keep him from screaming.


3. When he was a baby, baby, I would shower while he was on my bed. I did this until he was about 3 or 4 months old. He never went anywhere.

2. I let him watch as much TV as he wants.

1. We cuss around him and because of that yesterday he started saying "Bish, Bish"....any ideas what that word is?! Oy vey!

Phew! That feels so much better since I've gotten it off my chest!

::Putting on my shield and armor for the stones....::

What makes YOU bad a mommy?