'I am slowly going crazy!'

Raising a toddler is an exercise in madness! How the hell are you supposed to be able to understand what they are saying and also reason as to whether what they are asking for is actually what they want?



'Doody' has been asking to watch Spongebob Squarepants all week. She will scream and whine until I put it on. She will watch it for a few minutes and then exit the room. Next, she will go to the video album and request some other title that I cant make out. She'll scream and whine while I'm guessing which one it is.



'Do you want to see Teletubbies? NOOOO! Do you want to see Toopybinoo? NOOOO! Pingu, then, how about Pingu? Unh hunh', she says finally shaking her head yes. I put a Pingu video into the player for her while Spongebob is still visible on the tv. The screen goes blank. 'NOOOOO! bahbahb! she screams. Her voice cuts thru my head like a rusty blade. Reminiscent of banshees about to attack. Now she wants to see Spongbob. But only until she leaves the room again. 'Where are my meds?'