Shoe struggle

Cole has officially landed himself in the "terrible twos". Where he is not a terrible child, he is really strong willed and I think I will be purchasing the book, "How to raise a strong willed child." I love that he knows what he wants and I love that stands up for what he wants but there are a couple of things wrong with that. One, he is two and simply can't always have what he wants and two, when shoes have unintentional holes in them, they are old and need to be tossed and you may not wear them to school anymore. That is what started out our morning today.

Cole has had an opinion for some time now on thinking that you should be able to stay in your pjs all day. And I can not completely disagree with him on that, I would stay in comfy clothes (as Cole and I call them) all day. Well we have finally got him to understand that he has to get dressed (and he finally understand that getting dressed doesn't mean you have to wear a dress). Now one way of him showing me he knows what he wants is convincing me that certain outfits are similar to pjs and therefore are comfy. It is extremely clever of him and I can't disagree with him on the thought process but I am certain that school is wondering at this point why he is wearing a skull every day with a lightning bolt through it (Grateful Dead). Yes, I bought him a Grateful Dead shirt.

Ok, so back to the shoes.......He insisted on wearing his "new shoes". These are the shoes with the unintentional holes. I have about 4 other new shoes he could wear but no way was he interested. After Brian and I both locked him down and through a lot of tears we succeed in getting his shoes on. So off to school Cole and I went, tears and all. Finally made it to school and I let them know he was in a mood. Ms. Vanessa swooped in to the rescue and then Cole suddenly was my best friend again. Today they pulled him off of me (2nd time in his life) and I RAN OUT THE DOOR! But back to the shoes, I would have to say Parents - 1; Cole - 0.

It is incredibly hard to stick to your guns and maintain your cool. But it does work!!!