{"id":9737,"date":"2015-08-13T05:00:11","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T10:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=9737"},"modified":"2016-09-07T11:38:17","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T16:38:17","slug":"these-crazies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=9737","title":{"rendered":"These Crazies"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DSC_0187\"<\/a>\"DSC_0157\"<\/a>\"DSC_0164\"<\/a>I laughed out loud at the vet’s office yesterday when the receptionist commented on how well-behaved my boys are. I hadn’t meant the little outburst of laughter; it had just slipped out, and as I glanced back at them, I nervously nodded in agreement. They were playing and reading quietly and politely while we waited to be called back, no sign of the wild animals I had seen just the previous afternoon.<\/p>\n

Their behavior baffles me. One minute they are all quiet and calm, polite and helpful, kind and gentle and thoughtful with one another; the next minute a total chaos and a kind of brutal aggression ensues and as they are growing and getting stronger and bigger (while I stay the same size), it is getting more difficult to step in and physically separate them. It’s a joke to think that words alone can halt some of the behaviors, despite wanting to be all touchy-feely and respectful of their space and bodies… it’s all great in theory, but sometimes physical restraint is necessary when one is running toward another with a blunt object in hand.\u00a0\"DSC_0170\"<\/a>\"DSC_0141\"<\/a>Just the other day, during a play date, this very thing happened. The screaming, running, jumping, yelling, throwing, grabbing, wild-animal behavior came out and there was nothing short of a miracle that was going to stop it. You can throw them outdoors only for them to return minutes later, door slamming open, screaming and screeching and crying and tearing through the living room as fast and deadly as an August tornado.<\/p>\n

I am often apologetic and embarrassed when this happens and there is either no energy or no idea about how to stop it. I am not in control of my children<\/strong>; there are times they will run loose and free, and there it is. It has to run its course. I often take them aside later, when all is calm and I know they are listening, to discuss how I felt about them behaving this way and being too wild in the house, but half the time I have no idea if that message gets through. I feel like admitting this somehow makes me less of a parent, less of a\u00a0good\u00a0<\/em>parent. But then again, to expect little people to be well-behaved at all times is completely crazy, right?! Better in our own home than in the vet’s office.
\n\"DSC_0168\"<\/a>\"DSC_0083\"<\/a>That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I laughed out loud at the vet’s office yesterday when the receptionist commented on how well-behaved my boys are. I hadn’t meant the little outburst of laughter; it had just slipped out, and as I glanced back at them, I nervously nodded in agreement. They were playing and reading quietly and politely while we waited … Continue reading “These Crazies”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,187],"tags":[69,58,48],"class_list":["post-9737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","category-motherhood","tag-brothers","tag-friends","tag-motherhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9737"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9740,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9737\/revisions\/9740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}