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My G/F will want to cry when her son is sticking his hand into his diaper and pulling out poop and throwing it, but I have to laugh because it's funny.
Your sense of humor is vastly different from mine. Thankfully, my kids never had the "play with poop" phase. Only once, my son reached down there to see what he was producing; I stopped him while exclaiming, "Eww, gross!" He thought my reaction was hilarious, so much so that the word "eww" became a synonym for bodily wastes in our household. ("OK, now go to the potty and get out all your eww!")
To answer the OP's question, I want to run away when either of the kids has a temper tantrum. But running away is not an option, because I'm the more patient of the two parents, so it's my job to deal with it.
Your sense of humor is vastly different from mine. .
Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying it's OK to do this or encourage it or let it happen.
I'm just not going to let it make me angry or stressed out or feel negatively. I just laugh at it to myself as payback for all the crap I put my parents through going up.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying it's OK to do this or encourage it or let it happen.
I'm just not going to let it make me angry or stressed out or feel negatively. I just laugh at it to myself as payback for all the crap I put my parents through going up.
Some people DO deserve payback---considering the great parents they have/had!
When they were infants, and you know, sometimes no matter what you've done to provide every kind of care a baby needs, they are still just CRYING. And so, there were times, I would make sure baby was in a safe place (crib usually) and go sit outside on the back step for 15 minutes or so, to collect myself. It helped.
Now that they are teenagers, the issue that drives me nuts is tech support. I get dramatic texts about how the XBox or PS3 isn't working and they need me to tell them how to fix it, when I'm sitting at work like...seriously? Even if I was there, odds are, I wouldn't know what to do. I fix computers, but I don't know much about fixing consoles...or phones... And of course I'm not much more helpful at home, either. And they get all worked up over it and it gets on my nerves. I used to just tell them, "I'm sorry, can't help ya, get outta my face with this right now." Now I have decided to tell them instead, "Look. I don't know any more than you do what to do about this, but maybe if you Google it..."
Oh, and when one of them is tasked with a chore and all they can do is tell me how their sibling doesn't have as much work as them and it's not fair.
When they were infants, and you know, sometimes no matter what you've done to provide every kind of care a baby needs, they are still just CRYING. And so, there were times, I would make sure baby was in a safe place (crib usually) and go sit outside on the back step for 15 minutes or so, to collect myself. It helped.
Now that they are teenagers, the issue that drives me nuts is tech support. I get dramatic texts about how the XBox or PS3 isn't working and they need me to tell them how to fix it, when I'm sitting at work like...seriously? Even if I was there, odds are, I wouldn't know what to do. I fix computers, but I don't know much about fixing consoles...or phones... And of course I'm not much more helpful at home, either. And they get all worked up over it and it gets on my nerves. I used to just tell them, "I'm sorry, can't help ya, get outta my face with this right now." Now I have decided to tell them instead, "Look. I don't know any more than you do what to do about this, but maybe if you Google it..."
Oh, and when one of them is tasked with a chore and all they can do is tell me how their sibling doesn't have as much work as them and it's not fair.
When my twins were infants. Holy mother of God! The crying! One would wake up the other and then all hell would break loose, and the fact that I had a 3 and a 6 year old did not help.
The only thing about my kids that is stressful is when the two are fighting over something (everything). If we can separate them, everything is fabulous. I don't want to run away, just keep the two boys apart at times.
People want to leave when they are powerless to effect change.
In todays society there are so many rules and expectations imposed by others. Fear of intervention by social workers means that we dare not smack in public for example. I think we have a general disempowerment of parents. Kids do try to push boundaries like the poop throwing baby but they learn the boundaries if taught. The problem is we don't feel we can teach.
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