Mar 18 2009
“I Want That”
My 2 year old’s current favorite phrase is “I want that.”
He wants everything and anything that he sees, whether it be in the house, outside, or on TV. “I want that.”
Sam wants the bird that he sees at the bird feeder. He wants the can opener on the counter. He wants the pillow on the chair. He wants the airplane high up in the sky. He wants the toy he sees on TV. He wants Dora and Diego to come to his house. He wants the baby’s dirty diaper. He wants the dog in the backyard. Anything he sees he wants.
Answering him has become difficult. You cannot have the bird because you scare it when you run towards it. The can opener is not a toy, even though it appears that I “play” with it often. The pillow is one of my pretty’s, it is not for your little fingers! The airplane, well, I guess if you can reach it up in the sky, then you can have it. The toys on TV, maybe for your birthday. Dora and Diego? I really don’t know how to answer that at all! The dirty diaper is gross and it goes in the trash, you may take it to the trash can and throw it away, but DO NOT play with it. The dog in the backyard is yours already and you may go play with him. That one was easy.
I want, I want, I want. Talking about everything that he wants can be very exhausting, especially when that’s about all that we talk about throughout the day. Does all of this “I want” talk mean that we cannot take him shopping with us anymore? Will we have to dodge the toy and candy aisles? Will we leave shopping carts full of items when we have to remove him to stop a temper tantrum?
I hope that he ends this stage of his language development as quickly as he entered into it. It’s almost worse than, “What’s that, mom-mom?”
