Quote Originally Posted by mamaathome View Post
i'm not saying she can't understand, i'm just not willing to wrestle her into a timeout at 2 years old. in my opinion, and what do i know other than my own kid, she is too young. i appreciate and love the suggestions of games for sharing, the hula hoop idea is awesome and will be implemented, and i love the 'if you're mad and you know it take a deep breath' song, but it is just not my parenting style to crack down on my 2 year old who may become a hardened criminal if i'm not careful?!? she is 2 and is learning to deal with a lot - sharing her whole home, all her toys and her mama ALL day. this is her space in the morning, in the evening and all weekend. yes, it is a daycare, it is a business, i get that. and the idea of more structure in that direction is a good one. i'm not trying to get around that. but to detach my feeling from my 2 year old?? i'm baffled to be honest...
Somehow you have made your kids disrespect, disobedience, and physical acting out about YOUR feelings. Can you see that?

My Dad was raised in a small 800 square foot total two level house with his parents and 10 kids. They were one right after another in age. I grew up with 8 people was a tiny bit bigger. I had five siblings under his roof. We ALL had to share that tiny space day after day.... year after year. There was no evenings or weekends when we git our own space, stuff, and adult. We lived that.

Surely your one very small child can manage two very close agemates fir 50 hours a week whilst she has all the other hours as the only child in the entire house space. Her "sacrifice" for the family to do time with same aged girls with her own parent in her own home is quite minimal and very inconsequential in the scheme of normal human beings cohabiting and making it work with great behavior. You are really asking pprecious little out of her and she should be gladly willing to behave and make them welcome in her PARENTS home.