“Mommy, don’t drive away without me!”
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Patience is a virtue and everything is a phase. Yet with children it is sometimes very difficult to always stay zen.
Mathilde (31) lives with Robin (33). She is mother of Victor (3) and Arthur (1).
“Victor has a transverse phase. Innocent and in most cases funny. Going out the door alone can sometimes take hours. Are you putting on your coat, Vic? ‘No.’ Your shoes? ‘No.’ Come on, get your cookie in the car. ‘No hey.’ Recently I was so fed up that I crossed a line that I thought was sacred.
No phase
We were going to have visitors, we had to get some groceries. I had just given Arthur a bottle and as we were about to start he pooped his diaper. I quickly changed him and while we were ready again, Victor knocked over a cup of juice.
I swallowed a curse, brushed off the worst to prevent an ant invasion and jumped into my coat for the third time – the sweat on my back now. While I installed Arthur in his Maxi-Cosi in the car, I again summoned Victor to put on his coat.
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Then without you
When he refused again, half an hour after my first announcement that we were leaving, I was blown away. Well, I said, then you’re not coming. I pulled the front door shut behind me, got into the car that was visible through the window next to the door, and drove one parking space forward, out of Victor’s sight. Then I went back to get him.
“I felt like the worst mother of all time”
Victor was glued to the inside of the front door, completely out of his mind. “Mama, don’t drive away without me,” he sobbed. I felt like the worst mother of all time. Victor seemed to forget the incident once in the supermarket, but I still think about it regularly; terrified that I have left my child with separation anxiety for good.”
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