I’ve been struggling with Taryn for a few weeks now.  Her routine is changing and out of whack.  Whining has been increasingly worse.  Naps are dwindling.  She’s tired.  I’m tired.  One word….demanding.  I feel like there is always a demand, something she needs right this moment but before I can meet that need, she’s demanded something else.  That’s not to say she is impolite, quite the opposite, I say demanding because there is always an urgency, I’m hungry right now, I need that right away, and then I need this and this and this.  I move from one task to the next, with moments inbetween few and far between.  I find myself saying “ok, let me finish this first and […]