obnoxious behaviour?

the bean is definitely exerting her will these days; found her ego and is using it to the max.

take this afternoon. when i found the bean had moved onto a different activity, i asked if she'd finished playing with her lego set that she'd left sitting on the floor (with the implication that she should therefore pack it away), she said, "no. (pause) i busy at the moment." (!!!)

i am also finding it difficult to get her to go to the potty willingly lately. when we wake each morning it is a lottery game of whether she'd like to perform her ablutions or whether i have to use a combination of coercion and bribery to get acquiescence.

i can almost believe that the middle east "problem" could be easier to resolve than my daughter's intransigence!

another horrible development is her preference for "pink". i suspect that the bean has probably absorbed this insidious virus through observation of other little girls. for the past week or so she'd ask to wear pink-coloured clothes. i have taken to calling some shades of pink "violet" and "lilac" in the vain hope of expanding her repertoire - both in vocabulary and sartorially.

i don't care much for the opinion that it is natural for girls to like pink. it is an unfounded theory that is truly sexist. there is too much out there that is mono-coloured pink (albeit in various hideous shades) all marketed to girls and parents from infancy. it is brainwashing by media and commerce.