• Mealtime struggle

Parenting is testing my patience and anger management to the full these days. My two-year-old girl is driving us nuts when come lunch or dinner time. She simply refuses to swallow her food. It takes ages before she’d swallow and willing to eat the next spoonful of rice. She takes approx an hour to finish a bowl of rice. I lost my temper today when she kept pushing my hand away, making me spill rice onto the floor.

Yes I spanked her. It’s not the first time she did this, but that’s one time too many and I totally lost it. I know most of you read about never spank your child. If you are one of those parents who have never spanked one, manage to reason logic and common sense to a two or three-year-old, I salute you.