Discipline!? Now!?

Reflecting on my actions


Yesterday Diego displayed a very sensitive side that broke my heart! He has been slapping our faces when we hold him and we’ve been trying to be firm and teach him that it’s not right. Today I was leaning over his crib talking to him while he was standing inside it and he reached out and gave me a strong smack on my cheek. I looked in his eyes and yelled “Diego! No!” He looked at me and his bottom lip curled under and started quivering and tears started to roll down his face, but he didn’t break into a full cry. He would look away and then look at me and roll his lip and gasp for air – so dramatic! I wanted to whisk him away and cuddle him for the rest of the day. But I was firm – I didn’t say a word for about 3 minutes and just looked at him while he put on this show. It was really hard because it was the first time he made me feel like I had really hurt his feelings. He was very clingy to me afterwards so he probably wanted to make sure that I still loved him. Since then many opportunities have presented themselves when he would’ve slapped me before and he has not lifted his hand once so I think he learned his lesson. And when he tried to play with the garbage can (which is a major no! zone) he obeyed immediately when I said a firm “no.” He tests his limits, but overall he’s doing a good job responding to discipline – check back in about 8 months and you’ll see that I’m longing for these days :)
As you saw from the video, he loves to cruise around furniture. When in the kitchen, he prefers to get from one end to the other by walking along the cupboards, instead of crawling. Everyday he stands for longer periods of time on his own, but gets nervous after 5 or 6 seconds and sits down



Ricardo and I LOVE this expression - when he's deep in
thought and his cheeks sag