I Need You

“On average, a preschooler requires mom's attention once every 4 minutes or 210 times a day”  (MOPS)

Wow, does this saying ring so true in my life.  Every day, all day long I hear “Mom I need you!”  Little A has such a way of saying this.  I’m surprised I don’t hear it in my sleep.

Now I know this is totally part of a preschooler’s life, but I think she over uses just a tad bit.   Especially since there are times when she is completely capable of walking to me and asking for help versus yelling from her room and making me walk to her. 

Something else that Little A has been doing is telling me that she can’t walk because her leg hurts.  She’ll get up in the morning and ask me to carry her because she can’t walk.  She wants me to carry her to bed because her leg walks.  She wants to be carried to the dinner table because her leg hurts.  Little stinker.  I wonder if she gets it because she hears me talk about my limitations.   Lately I have been telling her I (well, I guess more like threatening) I will have to take her to the doctor if her leg keeps hurting and that pretty much stops it.

I know one day I will long for the day when I would hear “Mom I need you.”  But there are days now when I definitely wish I heard it a lot less.