Arg!
Sunday, 20 April 2008 by Jacob TomawThe sound of frustration is echoing throughout our home these days. A very loud, but very cute, baby version of frustration.
When your car just won’t start, what do you do? Yell at the car and hit something?
When an application just won’t do what it is supposed to do, what do you do? Yell at the computer and hit something?
When your TV stops working, what do you do? Yell at the TV and hit something?
Yelling and banging seem to be universal. As adults the things we respond to in this way are few and often the things we understand the least. For Jonah, the boundary of things he does not understand is right in front of his face. Literally.
He can easily spend an hour firmly gripping his pacifier, staring intently at it, and just yelling. Not crying, just a frustrated “GET IN MY MOUTH!” We will put the pacifier in and he will suck joyfully away. Then he pulls it out. When he tries to put it back in he usually puts it in the wrong way. The frustration begins and it is loud.
I think it is a aggravated because his front bottom teeth have poked through and when he puts the hard part of the pacifier in it hurts a little.
He is learning though. I have seen him put it in correctly a few times.