Oh my kids.
Where do I begin.
Today, I encountered yet another sampling of parenting sucks. A wrong choice was made by three children ("the gang"- I call them) and I found the remnants of what remained from that wrong choice and I was in the position where I needed to give a consequence. The thing is that the consequence for said choice had already been outlined and told to them previously so that they would have incentive to NOT choose wrongly. But apparently, wants overruled common sense and "they did not remember". I reinforced to them what the consequence was supposed to be and said, "this is what I think needs to happen now. But I want you to call your dad and make it right with him and talk to him and see what he says."
I overheard bits and pieces of that conversation, but not enough to know what he said for sure. I put myself in a time-out for the safety or should I say sanity of all involved and that is what I was doing until 10 minutes ago when a messenger (one of the gang members) brought me this note. 
I guess they are all "sorry". Oh and I am now proclaimed "beutiful", and if I have any questions or want to write notes, they even provided a space for me to do that. How thoughtful they are. Now if I can just get them to realize THAT before the fact then we will be good!
October 29, 2008
parenting sucks
from Pezlady Jana at 3:00 PM
Labels: clever kids, naughty kids, parenting sucks
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4 comments:
Riley is cut from the same mold! This does have to sofen your heart abit. Ri had an emotional outburst the other day and smashed the door into the wall making a hole. But, he immidiatly came and appoligized and without one complaint went to time out. It was hard to yell after that. And I. AM. A. YELLER.
Sorry ... laughing too hard to make a witty comment ....
that is classic don't ever through that away!
Jana:
Thank you for being so entertaining. I love to check out all the blogs of you that I know so well. I thought I was going to split a gut laughing. Sometimes I look back and wonder if my mom did the same thing. I am sure that Audrey did, knowing our boys, but we managed to get through, and so will you. ( wow, do I sound like a parent }
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