Whining vs Crying

(whining)

As I was putting the kids to bed I was thinking about our day. I couldn't recollect them whining the entire day, an accomplishment in this household. I gave some positive reinforcement by thanking Hayes & Kamri for how good they had been today: not whining and that they cleaned up their toys, etc.  Then Kamri corrected me: "Mom, I did whine today when my Popsicle melted."
We had popsicles after lunch.  The coconut whole fruit bars that are DELICIOUS.  Kamri and Hayes were eating them outside, Kamri came inside and set hers on the table. I thought she had finished.  We started doing other things and Hayes discovered the melted Popsicle.  Kamri started sobbing. She was so heartbroken that she didn't have her popsicle anymore. She had even carefully put it on a piece of paper towel to "save" it. I was going to start into lectures about popsicles go in freezers and I wasn't happy about cleaning up the mess either but I wasn't bawling. Then I remembered she's three, those are delicious popsicles, and I'd be sad if mine unknowingly melted too. I held her and let her bawl her eyes out. After she had mourned over the loss of her Popsicle she went back to playing happily with Hayes.
She wasn't whining that her popsicle had melted, she wasn't asking for more, just sad that it HAD melted.  That, to me, is totally different than whining.  I hope as she grows I'll still be the one that she comes to for comfort. Even if sometimes the sadness seems a bit silly. Like, heaven forbid, when she gets dumped for the first time.


Retraction:

I misquoted Hayes from yesterday's post...just by a bit. See above.  I was also informed that you could write Hayes's instead of Hayes'  It is just when it is a plural possesive that you would write the apostrophe after the s. There are also other rules about it ending in "es" but they couldn't come up with an example for me.  I'll stop trying to teach my kindergartener about apostrophes and  just focus on when to capitalize and when not to. Even that is too many rules,  we'll just focus on writing in a straight line, I THINK I have that down.