Anyhow.... we all have things that we stress about as parents. Maybe one of your kids has some medical issues, maybe you have to be "creative" while figuring out how to pay bills, maybe you or your spouse recently was in need of back surgery and was out of work for a few months, maybe things around the house need to be done, maybe your job is stressful, maybe you have 10 loads of laundry that need to be folded, maybe you're just craving some adult time with your friends....... we all have stress.
Maybe you have a 3 or 4 year older that just wants to find out about the world. They don't understand the stress that you're dealing with each day. They don't get the fact that there are other things in this world other than them. They are the center of their own universe and believe that they are also the center of your universe. When they were 2, they didn't "get" it all, and that was ok. Whatever.... their brains were so completely impulsive and ADD that they didn't waste a single moment on something they didn't really understand. They just moved to the next shiny, interesting thing and focused their attention to that.
Our 3 1/2 year old has quite an imagination. She is starting to want to know how things work. She is starting to put things together and isn't easily "tricked" or "diverted" as she was in days gone by. Instead, the most simple, non-compelling moment from your typical day can turn into an interrogation and bombarding of a million questions of things that pop into her head while she goes through this interrogation.
EXHAUSTING.
For the most part, you have to appreciate the fact that they have enough brain activity to wonder about such things. However, throw in an almost 1 year old and any number of the aforementioned stressors (and any other stressors that were not listed), and it's enough to make even the strongest nerves crack.
I would rather that she's inquisitive instead of a lump, but omg...
Here is a list of things that I've been asked in the past week. I've been trying to keep them in my head, but shit, I'm too stressed to remember all of these stressing questions.
- What is inside our walls?
- What is inside the floor?
- When I flush my toilet, does the poop go in the floor?
- What does a sewer do (follow up to the last question)
- Is this the sewer; I don't see any poop? (standing on the grate in the street during our walk the next day).
- What is that fan made of?
- Answer - wood metal and a motor
- How do you make a motor?
- What color is a motor?
- How does your car run?
- Why do you need gas?
- How do you make plastic?
- How does the postal system work?
- ME:How do you think it works?
- KT:I think you write a zip code on a mail and you send it in the mailbox.
- Why does your shampoo hurt my eyes, but my shampoo doesn't?
- Why can't babies talk?
- When is my sister going to talk?
- Mommy can you download this onto your phone?
- Mommy, does this app cost money?
- Mommy, is my phone dead?
- Mommy, how do you charge it?
- Mommy, how do you make an apple?
- How do I touch the moon?
- Why can't I touch a rainbow?
- Where is the thunder?
I am sure that I'll think of 300 other questions as soon as I hit publish, but frankly, I'm going to sit and detox my brain from the day's interrogations and bury my face in some yahtzee. :-)
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