So a couple months ago, I was having a really rough day with the kids. I had a migraine and it’s like Rohan was a shark smelling blood in the water. His behavior was so horrible. Bad language, hitting, defiance, destroying stuff… I wanted to punch him. Kai was no better. Whining, and instigating stuff with Ro… And the both of them were so loud and just little menaces.
Ugh.
In a last ditch effort to get them to be rapt for a minute while I got some coffee and hid from them…I turned on Daniel Tiger, which usually works. Not this time.
They both were just on me. Wrapping around my legs, hitting and pushing each other, pulling at my clothes, whining in that annoying tone…you know the one tone that just slices your patience to shreds….
I snapped.
I don’t know where it came from.
I just started buggin out, yelling at them… in Spanish. I walked over to the couch and slapped it with both hands and said Ninos sientate aqui! They legit looked at each other like…um…what the F is going on? and just kinda dawdled in the kitchen, so I shouted AHORRRAAAHHH!!!! and slapped the couch again and again like a crazy lady.
So for the kids here’s my plan:
We have … but… I know myself…. I’m not going to use it right now. (I may let Ro try it instead)
So I figure we’ll during the day and in the car at random. I’m going to find a telenovela to get sucked into also. And find a great movie in Spanish. ( is one of my faves!) That helps me remember how much I actually know.
I look forward to being fluent and truly bilingual. I hope to do the same for my children.
Do you speak Spanish?
Any tips, ideas or resources for us?!