After the initial trying to push me away this morning, she has pretty much accepted the fact that we are tied up together.... I'm making a game of it and Buster feels a tad left out, but I promised to "play the game" with him another day. She did test it a bit to see who was going to drag who around. We have not had one screaming fit, or begging for Bri, and have had several comments on her cute apron... and double takes when they realize I've got the apron strings....
We are heading out to the garden.
2 comments:
Good for you!
This makes me smile :)
The results will be quick but you mustn't loosen the reigns prematurely. She will just as quickly fall back into the "hard" behaviors and insecurities if you do and more harm will be done than good. The consistency and closeness builds the trust that she needs so you can't break that trust by letting her loose. You will know when you can give her an inch but it will be a VERY long time until you can give her a mile. :)
It has been 19.5 months for us and my two still only have about two - three feet (and that's on a very good day) and still must be reigned back in occasionally.
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