Aaahh I'm so stressed: packing

[ailbhe]

Imagine you're almost three years old.

Imagine it's almost your dinner time.

Imagine you have to wait an hour at the airport and then get on a plane and sit still for another hour.

Imagine that your supervising adult is unwell, in a wheelchair or the seat of the plane, with a six-month-old on her lap.

So.

Would two books, two fingerpuppets, a car, coloured pencils, a hand-puppet, a draw-on-wipe-off monochrome thing, and the dog from the children's show "The Tweenies", with apples, raisins and biscuits, be adequate compensation? How about if there's also a giftwrapped book you've never seen before and some chocolate?

I hope the wheelchair-pusher is good about letting me buy a bottle of water once we're through security. And with any luck I'll be able to buy extortionately priced sausages while on the plane; they worked well before.

Comments

[ailbhe]

Linnea will behave well anyway - if sitting still being bored and miserable is what's required, she'll do it, because she knows I'm not well.

That makes me want to keep her happy even more.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Would it be fair to her to ask what she'd like to bring? I can think of reasons both for and against that idea, depending entirely on the particular child in question.

[ailbhe]

I'm going to have her check the bag so she knows what's in it and can ask me to unpack things for her; the choice of soft toy was hers already.

[baratron.livejournal.com]

I was going to say you're so lucky to have the child you have, but I'm not sure luck has much to do with it. Seems more likely the reason she's so well-behaved is down to the quality of your parenting. She doesn't have to throw a tantrum to get your attention, because she already has as much of it as she needs.

[merryhouse.livejournal.com]

awww, what a sweetie

I'd be inclined to do the chocolate and the new book ;-)

(oh and my goodness, I appear to have been offline since the end of January)

Hope you feel better soon. Rob missing out on most of a month at this stage is a bummer, obviously, but if that's what it takes to make the rest of the year ok then it will be worth it.