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Great Day

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Today was a pretty good day. My 3 year can really get to me a lot of times with her attitude mainly. She is definately one of a kind. She has no idea that she is a child or that she is actually introuble. She has skipped the childhood years and gone straight into the teen years. Anyhow last night I was thinking about the way she speaks to us and how we are constantly sending her to the corner or spanking her for her it. I realized it has been a long time since I have explained to her not only that what she is saying is inappropriate but what the proper way to speak to her parents, adults and other people is. So today I woke up with that as my goal. My husband is working mids so he doesn't have to leave for work until 2:30pm so we decided to take the girls to the lake for a swim. So we all piled in the car and took 2 of our dogs and set off. Faith Anne was being really good this morning so there was no chances for correcting her but never fear she gave us an opprotunity. We were at the lake sitting in the water and she was kicking water at her dad who was trying to calm the puppy down who had just had a leash put on her for the first time. Anyyhow after repeatedly asking her to stop he splashed her back and she got really mad. So she said "I'm not your friend anymore". I explained to her that daddy was only trying to get her to stop and that when we are mad at people we tell them that and we don't tell them hurtful things like " I'm not your friend anymore". Anyhow we had a good time at the lake, I actually had some energy today and I didn't yell at Faith Anne hardly at all. SO all and all I had a really good day. I really pray that I can keep remembering that she needs to be taught the proper way to speak instead of instantly taking offense and disciplining her.