the blog of the angry mommy: i'm sending this with them when they bad mouth me in future therapy.

[ms_pooka]

i have lost sympathy for my children.

this sounds terrible, but it's actually a workable tool. with sympathy, i sound like, "i know he didn't clean his room, but i'll feel so bad about him missing activity X."

and i sit here and think i'm completely not serious as my catchphrase is pretty much, " that's it, i've had it, i'm totally done with this

Comments

[chickbrarian]

This is one of the most fascinating posts you've ever made.

That's all I can say for now. It has to stew some more in my brain.

[emily_swank]

I read a thing about a family that had a gunny sack and the rule of the gunny sack is, if you leave shit out, the gunny sack takes it and you won't see it again for a month, six months, end of story. And supposedly it worked. You could be like, "Here's where your things can be and they can not be anywhere else". Crumbs on the counter, I don't know. One of the houses I clean the teenagers, who all have gotten into good colleges, cannot clean up their crumbs, or anything, used maxi pads "near" the trash, feces on the toilet, food waste, lollipops sticks. I mean, that's going to be them when they're teenagers. ACT NOW! (or not

[ms_pooka]

we've done different versions of stuff disappearing for amounts of time. turns out, they don't seem to give much of a shit about it. like, out of sight, out of mind. we do have some success with saying it's going away if not picked up in two hours, or i'm going to throw your clothes out on the lawn. i would just like to not get to that point all the time

[sissychrissy1]

You go girl.