The melodrama, I mean.<\/p>\n
Tage is very resistant to going to sleep in his bed by himself, and lately we’ve been taking a sort of tough-love approach to bedtime, with varying results.\u00a0 Last night was one of the less successful efforts.\u00a0 He spent close to an hour crying and wailing and, frankly, getting on my last nerve.<\/p>\n
He lay alternately on his bed–stripped of its bedding–and on the floor, calling out plaintively, “Maaaa-ma … maaaa-ma … maaaa-ma.\u00a0 I want maaaa-ma.\u00a0 Mama, help me … help me, mama.”\u00a0 When summoning me thus repeatedly did not work, he broke out the big guns.<\/p>\n
“Mama,” he implored.\u00a0 “I’m dying<\/i>.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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