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I don’t know if this happens to other little girls. All I know is that it happens - occasionally, not that frequently though (thank goodness!) - to Anya.

She can wake up crying in the morning, like … for 15 minutes, because I don’t give what she asks.

It can be about anything, really.

Like asking to watch one episode of her Dora the Explorer WHILE she eats her breakfast (I tell her that she can watch AFTER she finishes her breakfast, but she rejects that idea. Of course.)

Or wanting to eat some chocolate before her breakfast (I actually say she can have a bite AFTER her breakfast, but of course that option is not her preferred one)

Now the interesing bit.

When her Korean Drama episode gradually comes to an end, she often sort of continues on doing her usual stuff. Like nothing much really happen earlier on.

And I’d just be shaking my head, thinking that I perhaps was like that too when I was her age (… or worse).

…

PS: When Anya fusses like this, I’d try different approaches. From using calm and persuasive tone, to using firm and stern voice.

In the end sometimes I’d be leaving her alone in her room (where she can cry in front of zero audience). But before I actually leave, I’d always tell her that if she continues to cry and scream, I’d be leaving the room and she can only come out when she stops. Sometimes it works and she’d stop screaming. Sometimes it doesn’t and I’d leave the room.

I’d then be going in and out of the room to check on her every 5 minutes or so.

Thank goodness such a day and moment doesn’t come TOO often.