Comments on: Childish things

By: txskatemom

txskatemom — Wed, 07 May 2008 03:21:41 +0000

two things:
1) been there, done that. There are still boxes of smashed up Lego creations in the front office closet that I couldn’t bear to throw away. We did the math and it came up to about $1.5K worth of ‘em. Plus HOURS he spent putting them together (and not doing homework)
2) nothing we say is going to make you feel better about it, but know that we’ve all been there, and done that. You handled it better than some of us might have, or some of us might have handled it better than you did. Hard to say, and sometimes it depends on how many times we got cut off in traffic or if the light bill came in the mail that day.

And what Kris said. Hang in there. Doing the right thing isn’t always popular with the kids — if it were, it wouldn’t be so dang hard to do it.

txskatemoms last blog post..um, so it’s May…

By: Sherry

Sherry — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:28:14 +0000

Why don’t you send all of those games up my way to keep them safe from you Texans.

Sherrys last blog post..100 things I have done. (Did? Dood?)

By: Kris

Kris — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:43:36 +0000

((HUGS))

Parenting isn’t easy, my friend. Anyone who tells you you’ll always do the right thing, or the smart thing, or the best thing is trying to sell you a book.

We all make shitty choices (or lack of better choices) from time to time. The key is to get back on the horse, sit them down, tell them that you were right, but went about it the wrong way, and move on.

The talking is important. At least with girls. And apologies go a long way to kids. (Even something like, “I’m sorry I overreacted. The rule still stands that whatever you’re fighting over gets taken away, but I shouldn’t have gotten so angry.”) Or something…

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