Frustration
When you're 15 mos. old, Frustration is:
-- being unable to buckle yourself into your own carseat
-- wanting to eat the scrambled eggs off your mother's plate that are exactly the same as the ones on yours, and being told "no"
-- being stopped from taking every single library book in your sight out of its spot on the shelf
-- having to share a big basket full of crayons with the other children in the library
-- the doll stroller that just won't fit behind the table
-- the mother who won't get you the hard green berries that you see on the blackberry bush from whence you just ate 50 black ones.
It must be hard to be 15 mos old with strong desires, single-minded drives and an almost non-existent vocabulary to make it through the day.
The mother of the 15 month old clings to this thought as she struggles to understand that a strong will, determination, and knowledge of one's needs are blessed, God-given traits that will stand her daughter in good stead as she grows up to strong and faithful Catholic womanhood. These traits must not be squelched, they must be tempered and refined.
But oh, how to do this well?
-- being unable to buckle yourself into your own carseat
-- wanting to eat the scrambled eggs off your mother's plate that are exactly the same as the ones on yours, and being told "no"
-- being stopped from taking every single library book in your sight out of its spot on the shelf
-- having to share a big basket full of crayons with the other children in the library
-- the doll stroller that just won't fit behind the table
-- the mother who won't get you the hard green berries that you see on the blackberry bush from whence you just ate 50 black ones.
It must be hard to be 15 mos old with strong desires, single-minded drives and an almost non-existent vocabulary to make it through the day.
The mother of the 15 month old clings to this thought as she struggles to understand that a strong will, determination, and knowledge of one's needs are blessed, God-given traits that will stand her daughter in good stead as she grows up to strong and faithful Catholic womanhood. These traits must not be squelched, they must be tempered and refined.
But oh, how to do this well?
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