I don’t know when Scout had his official first “time out”, but I DO know it wasn’t by fourteen months. Sissy was hitting Scout this morning, and she had it coming. But Scout totally refrained from any sort of retaliation, quite possibly because our family night lesson was on being “a good example”. Instead, he would just look at me with sad little eyes. I knew that I had to take some action, and in an effort to also be a good example, I put sissy on a shelf and told her she was in her very first time out. Scout then told her that when little babies do stinky things, they get time outs. She sat there pretty good. (I kind of expected her to try and jump off or something.) Afterward, I showed her for the millionth time how to be soft. She attempted, and then gave Scout a hug and a kiss and said “sorry”. Amazingly, she followed the protocol perfectly. They say that girls are naturally quicker than boys in the developmental stages. I just didn’t know that “hitting” was part of developing. What a rip!
And then the little narcissist went and gave herself a few kisses. I guess her tiny arms couldn’t reach, to give herself a few pats on the back.
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