I love my little corner of the blogosphere but I must admit that more often than not, I feel like a big fat sham. You see, I say that I blog about parenting. However, I think it is more blogging about my parent fails so you can all feel better. There is no parenting advice here people! If that is what you are looking for…..you can move along now.
You’re still here? Good. Pour a glass of wine and lets trade war stories!
Take tonight for example. Dewey and I got home at regular time. We had a rousing game of balloon “ping pong” (Evan’s name for it) across the island, ate supper, read a book. Over all, a nice night. And THEN…..Evan turned in to a bedtime hating, screaming, flapping, sobbing, angry eyed, elbowing little boy. I think the thing that set him off was that he bumped his elbow on the door knob in the bathroom. Fine, I get it. He was hurt but still….not cool.
Some of my favorite quotes from Evan tonight:
- When I tried singing to him to calm him down, he started crying and said “Whenever you sing lullabies to me it makes me so sad! Just like when I was a baby. I always cried when you sang to me.” BTW…this is total fiction.
- “My eye hurts.” I said that I thought he might have poked it when he was freaking out. He answered “NO! It hurts because a boy at preschool hit me in the eye when I was 3.”
- “I’m really sad because I didn’t get to go sledding that time when I got in trouble and now I will NEVER get to go to that hill. It is WAY better than our sledding hill!” Ummm…yeah….that happened last year. He also started crying because winter is over and summer is almost here. You heard it here folks!
It was all over the place! Thankfully, I can say that our efforts to be more consistent and firm with Evan have been very successful on a whole. Just not tonight!
Spill it! Am I the only one? What are your parenting challenges these days?
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I am right there along with you fighting the good fight sister!
Kids can be such a handful some days and then great the next. Most days I feel like a failure. But other’s assure me they go through the exact same things.
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It is amazing the difference from one day to the next! Mood swings like a battle axe!
That sounds like he hit the wall…the “i’m done and overtired” wall lol
That’s not a parenting failure, that’s normal! 
True enough. Tonight we put him to bed half an hour earlier than normal. I think we need to move bedtime back to 7:30 for a while.
Allyson has started getting up sometimes 4 times a night and coming into our room saying that she is scared or that the cats are bothering her or that she needs a drink. Nothing we are doing is making her sleep though the night. Haiden is bad to say that something on him is hurting from someone from school that hit him a week ago. Kids can be so funny when they are tired, but it Allyson wakes me up again 4 times at night when I have to work in the morning, she wont think its funny!! love you!
Evan isn’t a great sleeper either. I am up wiht him some time in the night more often than not. I feel like saying “Just GO BACK TO SLEEP!” but I don’t.
I think i can top you – Kohen told me that I “hurt his heart” last night. (I told him to put his Jammie’s on before he brushed his teeth). And he tells me every day how many times I hurt his feelings. Today was 888 times.
This makes me laugh. The little boogers. They know exactly how to pull the heart strings!
You are not alone. I have some crazy stories sitting in draft mode right now!
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OOOOhhhh….push publish!
Oh Merry, I got lots of stories like that too!!! It is amazing how the world is coming to and end when they are tired and their ain’t nothing you can do to make it better other than just get them to sleep. When Hayden is beyond tired and is getting into trouble, he usually tells me how much he misses his great great grandfather! He only 4 with 1 poppa and 1 grandpa!! Tomorrow will be a better day!! Axing how sleep can cure just about anything in a young child!!!
It should say he is only 4 and amazing how sleep can cure!!!! Dumb spell check!!!
Gotta love autocorrect! It gets me every time.
Patience. It’s so difficult to remain soft-spoken and positive with an unreasonable tantrum happening. I especially suck at the clothes and diaper related ones.
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Especially the soft-spoken part for me. I turn in to a screaming mommy. Eeep.
My daughter knows how to push every button until you want to… yeah, that! I hate that she makes me feel like screaming– she’s just so unreasonable.
You aren’t alone for sure. BTW- Evan sounds like maybe he could have gone to bed earlier. If you don’t want a repeat, try putting him to bed 15 minutes sooner tonight. Good Luck!
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Maya gets to that point, not as often as she used too, but even once in a while is too often in my books. It’s not fun. I have found with her the less I engage the quicker it’s over, so she’s in her room until she’s calm and then we can talk. It’s really hard to keep your patience though.
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