Last night we had a major meltdown! Crying, 'you always yell at me, scream at me , say what are you doing?, why are you doing?' As Vinod yelled at him after asking him nicely to get into bed at least 5 times!
Not sure if we are really being mean and yelling at him or its his hormones or some other stuff going on, we are having some rebel moments from few days! Repeating instruction more times than usual! We are losing patience and he tests it and rebels to follow them! I have been trying to say to myself and to Vinod, its exactly how I used to be that age so don't panic!
From past few weeks, he is allowed to watch Indian summers and sleep at 10 on sundays. As he has been coughing whole day and is wheezing still, I say ok to sleep in our bed when he asked, happily jumped into the bed and started chatting. Warned him twice at 10:15 and 10:20 but still continues. At 10.25 I draw big deep breath and ask him 'Sammu, I told you twice now that we are not talking about any subject(he tried 3 subjects testing if I will fall for any!) as it is too late but you are still continuing , so what does that mean?'.
'That means I am not tired', was an immediate answer!
Another deep breath and 'ok, can you please go down and empty the dish washer?'
A low, monotone 'no....', 'why', 'because I don't want to do that in the middle of the night!'
'So what should you be doing in the middle of the night?', 'sleeping', 'so?' , 'goodnight, love you amma' and I hear a slow snore in 90 seconds!
I need to meet my GP and ask for "more patience" prescription tomorrow!
If this is preteens, how are teens going to be? Please can the next 8 years just disappear?!
Happy mother's day!
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