Some days aren't so pretty.

[gfrancie]

Senor Onion did this best today to make me want to sell him to the gypsies. He behaved so horribly at the library that I had to drag him out by his arm while he shrieked and made me look like I was the most horrible Mother in the world. (I certainly felt like a shitty shitty mother.) I was so angry and I think he understood that I was that angry because when we came home I looked at him and said, "Go upstairs to your room." and he went right there. I told him he won't be able to go to the library next week because of how he behaved. He is heart-broken but when you throw things (especially at your sister!) and you scream like that -you don't deserve to go to the library.
After some time in his room, we had a chat and a hug and all was okay again.
It is stuff like that that just makes me HATE the job of parenting. He acts like a terror, I look like an incompetent parent in public and I have to break out the Mean Mummy act. I was filled with such shame and guilt on the drive home because he should know better than to act like that and it makes me doubt a lot of things I do as a parent.

So it is obvious his birthday is coming up soon. It isn't a birthday unless a child turns up the crazy-sauce and makes you think about setting him on the curb with a sign that says, "free!"

I want someone to make me hot chocolate and let me nap.

...

I made a really lovely lemon meringue pie today. I hope it will taste good tomorrow. I definitely enjoyed making it. Making a pie is soothing work.

Comments

[emmabovary.livejournal.com]

What everybody else has said here. I'm so glad you didn't sit there and try to EXPLAIN everything to him, all while he was acting out. You did perfectly, my dear.

It does make one feel like Joan Crawford, however.

[needlediva.livejournal.com]

oh gawd, yes, the mothers who try to REASON with the three-year-old having a nervous breakdown!! "now, honey, you had YOUR turn at the toy store, and now it's MOMMY's turn at the yarn store, and so you must allow mommy her time because that's only fair...."
yeah, right.