Practicing for her teen years

NS February 21st, 2009

When my toddler is being particularly moody and doesn’t want me anywhere near her, I love nothing more than turning on some music and dancing around wildly, doing turns and shaking my groove thang while singing into a microphone fashioned out of a maraca or hairbrush. It makes her so unbelievably angry and she glares at me through her platinum blonde mop of hair with arms crossed in a dramatic harrumph of epic proportions. Ocassionally she shouts “Mummy, stop dancing! Stop singing! Be quiet!” and I just dance harder, sing louder and try to entice her to join me. Eventually her arms come uncrossed, her brow comes uncreased and the corners of her lips lift ever-so-slightly. We collapse into the sofa or floor in each other’s arms, a tangle of limbs and kisses and laughter. Soon she forgets why she was grumpy or cross in the first place and as we sit catching our breath, she looks at me and smiles her big toothy grin. It’s not much longer that this tactic will work, I fear, and I’ll have to think of something else to diffuse the tension that mounts between us.

It sure will be a good trick for embarrassing her at sleepovers when she’s a teenager though.

4 Responses to “Practicing for her teen years”

  1. Coding Mamma (Tasha) says:
    21 February 2009 at 10:38 pm

    Oh, that sounds like a brilliant idea. I am going to try that next time.

    When I was a teenager, I used to have to go down and tell my parents to turn the music down so I could get some sleep! But I also went dancing with my mum and my dad, and thought they were pretty cool.

  2. Crystal Jigsaw says:
    22 February 2009 at 9:00 am

    I imagine your toddler will look back at those time with such fondness.

    Found you on Mummy Bloggers!
    CJ xx

  3. NS says:
    23 February 2009 at 7:52 am

    @Coding Mamma – I was the same, having to ask my parents to turn down the music sometimes. In later years we would even go to concerts and out dancing together! If by ‘dancing’ you mean crashing into things drunkenly. ;)

    @Crystal Jigsaw – Aw, thanks! I hope she does too.

  4. andrea says:
    23 February 2009 at 3:58 pm

    I’ll be very interested to see how this works in her teen years. Her friends will either think you’re the super cool mom or a nutter.