Perhaps you may remember from reading this blog previously (because I KNOW you’ve committed every post to memory) that I am a *smidge* vain. Although I will say, my vanity takes a HUGE dive when I’m pregnant (I think I wore makeup like three times all summer. Really, foundation just seems pointless when you’re puking 24/7). But anyhoo. Normally I am rather vain. I likes my makeup and my pretty clothes and I like to look cute!
And apparently, I have passed this tendency toward vanity down to my daughter. Who, of course, is alarmingly adorable. But REALLY. Emily has made fun of me for looking at myself in any available mirror before, and recently this has become a little problem for me – when Sophie does it! Which she does at EVERY available opportunity. Today for instance, she watched her reflection in the oven as she danced in the kitchen, in the dining room window (turning around backwards in her chair) as she ate lunch, and in the bathtub FAUCET for Pete’s sake while taking a bath! She was really enjoying making eyes at her funny reflection in that faucet!
But all these were just minor, no big deal really. The big narcissism problem came last Wednesday at her speech therapy appointment. Sophie l-o-v-e-s speech and her therapist, and is usually good as gold for the entire 30 minutes. BUT. There is a two-way mirror in the room so parents can watch the kiddos without being seen. And this week, instead of being cooperative, Sophie made EVERY effort to STARE at herself in the mirror the whole time! She did everything her therapist asked her to do…while watching herself do it, and making a funny face if possible. Which made her focus and accuracy come down just a few levels on the scale. Arrgh! My blood pressure was rising on the other side of that mirror!
Sophie. This therapy costs GOOD MONEY. Don’t make me go in there and tar paper over that mirror!
I’ll be interested to see how she does this week! I think I am just going to go ahead and ask her therapist to turn Sophie’s chair around so her back is to the mirror.
Because after all, Sophie is the fairest. And she just finds her reflection irresistible!
Like I said – she doesn’t get it from Bobby.
Grandma, Me, You, Sophie…sooooooooooooooooo genetic!!
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I’m glad someone already said Grandma, so I didn’t have to.
We had a cat like that once. He would jump up on the dresser and watch himself in the mirror.
So funny! It’s great when kids have so much confidence … and think they are “the fairest of them all”! Enjoy her!
-Deb for Ouidad
If she continue to watch herself in the mirror at every chance you may encourage her to do something productive. Like have her watch you say a word and then practice that same word while watching the way her mouth forms the same word in the mirror. Maybe something to discuss with her therapist.
My son was in speech and it was a big thing for him to see the way we formed the words with our mouths so he could practice. He isn’t much for watching himself in the mirror though, but sitting facing each other and taking turns saying the word helped him.
Good luck!!
I think it’s just the age. My guy is 4 too and he is always goofing off in front of mirrors. Nothing is new to us adults anymore, but look at it from a kid’s perspective–hey there’s a kid that looks just like me and he does just what I do. Hey, he’s making funny faces! Hey, look, there’s his butt! Please tell me it’s not just me.