I have had my 3yo little friend today. She makes me smile all day. What a charmer. She loves my daughter and her husband. Bonded to them right away. Such a sweetie.
I envy your patience-I’ve never enjoyed keeping/being around small children for any length of time, other than my own-I’ve never been all that patient, neither has my brother. For that, or maybe some other reason, my cub and his cubs were declared the best behaved kids in the family by the aunts and uncles when they were little.
And I do always praise the parents of well-behaved kids I see in the grocery, feed and other stores-easy to spot, they are the ones not crying, shrieking or running around unchecked-unlike in the city-out here, they are in the majority-it is probably like that where you are, too-it does seem that kids are taught to be better behaved in rural communities, villages, etc than in cities these days, possibly because there really isn’t much anonymity-and so more peer pressure-in a small place...