That was me. Snapping. Wanna know why?<\/p>\n
Because today at the park, my five year old started fighting in the sandbox (sounds so cliche!) with some other kids. Informed of the state of affairs by another child, I told the five year old that he wasn’t allowed to throw sand, hit, punch, etc., anyone. (He asked if he could roar at them, and I said yes.) Not five minutes later, my attention was briefly diverted by my two-year-old and I notice a mother walking toward me. She was obviously on a mission. Uh-oh. She had asked my child to stop throwing sand chunks and he said to her, “I don’t care what you say!” and then threw another one and gave a child a bloody nose.<\/p>\n
I took him and his brother home, leaving older brother with another mother who can bring him home later. Five-year-old will miss the pizza-place-and-a-movie birthday party that is being held for older brother tonight. While I feel that that is adequate punishment for what happened, the real problem is that it isn’t an isolated incident.<\/p>\n
This is a child who openly disdains everything church related (“I’ve already chosen hell’s side, so can you get a babysitter for me so I don’t have to go to church anymore?”), has no desire to please anyone, will do anything he can get away with (despite clear rules, he opened his second story window this week and pushed the screen out), and is a general pain in the arse. (On the other hand, he can be incredibly sweet when he wants to be.) He has an amazing vocabulary and is clever. He is a good reader and loves math. But I feel like I have failed in my efforts to domesticate him. He appears to have no inner sense of morality.<\/p>\n
I realize this isn’t a mommy blog, but I’d like to know what y’all would do if you had to raise this child. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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