Parenting

There is so much that we all as kids think our parents do or say that is 'so unfair'. Not let us go to parties, not let us have that toy ect. I know for me I just believed they were doing it for their own amusement for there own little sick game. I realize now how much this is not true. I see so many kids and so much that my own baby does that I just want to parent/ stop (hehehe).
I am pretty strict with Hastings but really he is pretty good. He has known and obeyed the word NO for a couple of months now. I am not saying 100% of the time he is perfect (I am the first to say he is not) but he follows it most of the time. I would be letting him be more of a baby explore learn his own lessons ect but I cant afford a baby who cant follow instructions now that I have another one on the way. One reason is that I am the size of a reasonably well fed elephant and slow, so I can not catch him as quickly if he is doing something he shouldn't  so he has to be able to understand when I say no I mean it. Second reason is once this baby has arrived I do not want to be worried that he is a horror child that I have no control of while I have my hands full feeding Baby Boy 2 and he is climbing into the oven ect. As a Mum I can say that we mums hate disciplining. We do not want you to grow up we do not want to have to discipline you. But on the other hand we would rather discipline then you turn into  little BEEEEEPS.   
When I first told Hastings no it was not so bad because he didn't understand and I could just move him away from the problem, but the first time I told him no and he understood I was upset mainly because he got a little grumpy (as we all do when we don't get what we want) he just put his hands between his legs and made a little cry. I knew then, my little baby was learning and growing up and I didn't want it to happen.
Anyway it has paid off. As I mentioned in an earlier post I was sick this week so just imagine a large slow elephant that has the sniffles. I also mentioned that we had the fire on, this is the first time we have had it on since Hastings has become mobile. I only had to tell him no twice, one time, two separate occasions. after he decided he was not going to get away with it he moved on. This I was proud of him for but the funny part came later when I was going to put wood in the fire and he pointed at me and told me No. I was not allowed to touch the fire either. I guess the next step is teaching him that the rules aren't all the same for everyone. How do you get that across to a kid who isn't even one yet?