Keira is driving me into a monster NAG! and she is a BIGGER MONSTER NAG than me!

Saw this blog title??
Read again... and repeat after me! ya.. R-E-P-E-A-T ...

Every day, I have the difficult task of (and struggling) trying to maintan a picture of cool calmness and practice mummy mantras. I am super bad at this - CALM DOWN!

Keira has grown quite substantially.. haha .. .what a way to put it! Every day, I find myself saying the same things to her, and she has learnt to memorize them but not really adopting them... sick? Oh, and I really get my "rest" (that means I don't have to repeat these to anyone) when I am at work.. thank goodness! So between the time from 6:30pm - 8pm, I turned into a super huge monster nag! ... Sicko nagging process of telling her to be careful not to drip around the house when eating fruits/drinking beverage; wash your hands b4/after food; be careful don't drop your rice/veg/meat etc; wear your shoes; don't run; shower now; drink milk; brush teeth... and the list goes on and on - same stuff I say everyday ... and it doesn't come automatically from her though she knows the order by heart now! So I was told to repeat and repeat to kids so they learn .. hmm.. when will I actually get to stop having to repeat before I turn into a real massive nag of all times???!!!????

Incidently.. I came to realise that kids NAG too.. and they do it sooooooooooooo well that they enjoy nagging more than we do! I don't know if my constant nagging of the same activities make Keira irritated... but her nagging irritates me BIG TIME!

Here's one scene....
To set the context for you here, I bought an ice cream in a cup for Keira before and it is a Milo-flavoured one, so it comes in Milo-branding and design. 2 days ago, while set to drive Keira home from mum's place in the evening, Keira started ranting... "mama, I want Milo"... when I ignored her... she continued with a raised voice and shrieks when I continue to ignore ... and she kept going on until I finally said... "ok..ok... go home, you will have it" ... happy with my response, she stopped her "pleas" ... and 1 second later... my nightmare of 15-20 mins began ...
Keira happily repeated "mama, I want Milo" ..... for the entire car ride home!!!!!! mind you... literally....
mama, i want milo; mama, i want milo; mama, i want milo.....................................................................................................................................................................................................

-> nothing I could do to STOP HER... until she finally had her MILO ice cream at home!