I recall posting some time ago about how becoming a parent hasn’t really changed me. I have to modify that statement a bit. I have changed. I have developed patience.
At root I’m not a particularly patient person. I twitch with impatience when I cannot walk up the escalator because people are standing in the way, or when the people in the queue in front of me cannot find their way around their own wallets because the wallet is stuffed with junk.
But now I have learned to sit quietly in a dark bedroom for 20 minutes (or longer, on a bad day) doing nothing but waiting for Ingrid to fall asleep. And that’s after 10 minutes of bedtime story + lullaby. It was hard in the beginning, but now I manage to wait it out without any real frustration, night after night.
Hmm, I just had an idea – audiobooks! Why haven’t I thought of that before? Thank you, blog.
have already tried the audio books?
We have tried it sometimes, but has not become a big hit yet. The stories are quite complicated and language advanced. They need to have the same story book to follow otherwise they ask for just a book. Ours prefer us reading still. I don’t mind at all, only I am often just too tired to do it properly.
Ah, no, the audio book would be for me, not for her! For those 20 boring minutes when she just needs me to sit there quietly with her while she falls asleep.