The most recent teen drama at my house... I am not mature enough for this shit.
So I have one for you. Now Alex is saying he won’t eat the entire time he is grounded. Which this time is for two days. Which is only because he would not keep his tongue when he decided to toss his sister (and make her cry) off the porch while they were racing to the front door. He said “I only “moved” her.” [rolleyes] And then proceeded to argue with me, all haughty for the next 20 minutes! So he's grounded. Go figure kid. Talk to mom like that after you were CLEARLY in the wrong, and you get grounded. Trust me. He is lucky he didn't get slapped. UGH! And now he has been seriously following me around asking if that is the punishment he should have for the last HOUR (the starving for two days, I mean). I want to ground the kid for a month, but I know that would be dumb… for one, because he didn’t really do anything that would require that length of grounding, and for two, he is only going to be here for another 10 days! So that wouldn’t work… ACK!!
I am handling it well though. It is odd. The worse he gets, more into the ‘I don’t make sense because I am a teen’ stuff I mean, the better I get. Because he has stopped making sense. Stop eating for two days because I am grounded. Whatever… like the kid could even skip a meal. LOL… I have spent the better part of my life running damage control on people who make no sense whatsoever. Maybe the teen years won’t be as hard as I think. But man. They are already annoying and I am at ‘T minus 1 year and 11 days’. Is that what is wrong with my parents? They both never grew out of being 13??
Sigh… Don’s not home. No one to vent to but the internets. Sometimes I feel like I do nothing but bad mouth the kid. But honestly, you can’t be around him for a strait 10 minutes without him doing something that is SO 'off' that you want to scream. Wait. That isn’t true. If you put him to work, then he does well. Especially if you are paying him for it. Maybe I should just hire him out to the neighbors. Have him come home exhausted but well paid. Maybe that will get us through these years without killing each other counseling.
Blech…
I am handling it well though. It is odd. The worse he gets, more into the ‘I don’t make sense because I am a teen’ stuff I mean, the better I get. Because he has stopped making sense. Stop eating for two days because I am grounded. Whatever… like the kid could even skip a meal. LOL… I have spent the better part of my life running damage control on people who make no sense whatsoever. Maybe the teen years won’t be as hard as I think. But man. They are already annoying and I am at ‘T minus 1 year and 11 days’. Is that what is wrong with my parents? They both never grew out of being 13??
Sigh… Don’s not home. No one to vent to but the internets. Sometimes I feel like I do nothing but bad mouth the kid. But honestly, you can’t be around him for a strait 10 minutes without him doing something that is SO 'off' that you want to scream. Wait. That isn’t true. If you put him to work, then he does well. Especially if you are paying him for it. Maybe I should just hire him out to the neighbors. Have him come home exhausted but well paid. Maybe that will get us through these years without killing each other counseling.
Blech…