Saturday, February 11, 2006

"One Help" and the Hervey Bay Day Trip

With Aidan even the simplest of things can turn into nightmares. Take, for example, clothes dressing. We have a lovely little routine we have to go through each day with dress called "One Help." In this scenario, if Aidan doesn't like what he has put on, or even if he does, he asks for "One Help" to get the fitting right. This usually involves an adjustment of the tag on a T-shirt or Shirt, and the readjustment of the elastic on shorts.

This was alright for a while, but like with most things Aidan, routines soon become extreme. It is now at the point where he has to have adjustments made regardless of what clothing it is, so now it is time to say "No." Our issue with this is we usually introduce a new routine to help us, however, sometimes - like in this instance - it backfires.

Aidan normally comes grocery shopping for the main weekly shop on Saturdays. Today, when he got dressed he started up with the "One Help". Nothing would settle him at home, so I hoped that the car trip to the supermarket might. He shrieked most of the way there. He played up in the Supermarket. He cried at other people. He ran off at the checkout. If Ethan hadn't of come today I probably would have (deliberately) lost him!




So then I decided I'd take a long trip. To Hervey Bay. I like Hervey Bay. It isn't overly developed yet, although it will be. It's about 300km North of Brisbane, and the beach is expansive. It also is one of the main thoroughfares to Fraser Island. Although Captain Cook sailed past and named it in 1770, he didn't actually land there. Matthew Flinders, another European explorer was the first to alight there in 1799. Aidan was actually quite good for the trip, and also when we got out and walked around in the heat. They also have a great pier at Urangan, which stretches out a long way.




Aidan and I walked around the beaches, and did a spot of sight seeing. I found Vic Hislop's White Death Shark Show, but we didn't go in. Depending on who you believe Vic is either a saint or an environmentalists nightmare. His take appears to be that sharks are killers and should be culled. He also claims that many of the actual deaths reported as drownings in Queensland are actual shark attacks. He has conspiracy theories about the government covering it up for tourism purposes.




After getting home and settling down after dinner, as we prepared for bed, Aidan brought out his "One Help" antics for his pajamas. I lost it... almost. Angry Dad reared his head, but was dealt a blow by the "No" word. We're not going to do "One Help" anymore. We shall see how that progresses.

Ciao for Now, Just Say No Angry Dad.

3 Comments:

Blogger National Enquirer said...

So close to being a real tops story. You should make some fiction out of this faction - it would be great and you would be a saint (or atleast have many more readers of your site!).

Cheers AD06,

NE

10:26 pm  
Blogger IFLYG said...

hey angry dad - just dropping in to say hey - another brisbane dad here; will continue to look in...

12:59 am  
Blogger Wes said...

I dunno what NE is on, but he's had a normal rant as usual. IFLYG, thanks for the post, and I'll have a look at your blog too!

10:46 pm  

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