"What's Daddy, Chopped Liver?"
Niko is going through his mommy attachment phase. I can only remember mine because of the animosity it created between me and my mom. I think my mommy attachment phase as a kid ended badly, Basically I resented my mom a lot, there was an incident where I told the class I hated her when I was a discussion about it with my mom when I was around grade 1. I can see how a bad removal of attachment can go, in my own childhood. I could not relate with the missing mommy feeling until I became a dad and I missed niko's mommy. Seeing Niko cry and cry when his mom leaves made me realize that the resentment was a coping mechanism. There is no easy way for him or me when i was a younger to grow into understanding the sense of abandonment even if it was only for a day. A day, which is to a baby a very long time. We learned he can be distracted and heavily engrossed in play. He has that single minded attention I have that frustrates my wife when it is something that interests him, except t