The Saturday morning crisis to open the new scooter ended in a stand-off, once it was completed, it just sat in the living room. And yet it was enough to ruin a T-Ball game. How do we get through the next 15 years with this level of willfulness? It will be an asset for him in the work world, just not now for his frustrated dads!
Should he be a salesman or a lawyer? I used to be a fundraiser, which is a type of sales. You don’t take “NO” for an answer. My son can ask for something hundreds of times, it doesn’t faze him when I say no because he has perfectly tuned me out. He doesn’t hear what I say unless the word out of my mouth is “YES,” it is akin to robotic programming. But where did he get this from?
And arguing. He is an expert. A good lawyer can argue, a better lawyer, my son, can find all the loopholes at 7 years old! I say I am in charge, he says mother nature is in charge. I can’t argue with that. I can’t argue with most of his comebacks.
And that my friends is why parents always have the fallback answer to the kids arguments, when all else fails, the thing your parents used to say to you, that you vowed never to use on your own kids, that you now use from utter frustration, cause we have to get things moving along, repeat after me, as if it is your #1 mantra:
“BECAUSE I SAID SO!”
oh..I can relate! My son is the same..until the answer is yes he tunes me out and argues. I am also “not in charge”…is it this time of year? I’ve struggled all last week with this and am beyond frustrated. In a way I’m glad it’s not just me dealing with this… HC