Me: Ok Zach, since you are going to sleep late tonight, we are only reading one book!
Zach: Ok (holding 4 books)
(we read the one book)
Me: Ok Zach, that's all-time to go to sleep.
Zach: Ok, I have to tell you someping.
Me: What?
Zach: How about we just read 2 more books?
Me: No. Night, Night.
(keeps begging for 2 more books, I tell him he can quietly look at the pictures)
Zach: Oh I have a great idea!! OK you teach me how to read them!
Smart little toot, knows how to get what he wants. So of course the first night I couldn't disagree to that "great idea" so I taught him to read (memorize) one book.
Then tonight-same exact thing, same "great idea." Sorry Zach, you may be smart but I am smarter-tonight I win!
He is very difficult lately but in a different type of way. I feel like I am already fighting with a teenager. The only difference is I am pretty sure they wouldn't use this line on me "Becccca you better say sorry, Santa is watching and he isn't happy you are being mean to me!" Little booger.
I am having a hard time with him, because ANY and EVERY time I discipline him for doing something wrong, he ALWAYS turns it on me!
"Becca are you sorry for being mean to me?" "Becca are you sorry for hurting my feelings?" "Becca I'm not going to be happy until you say sorry for spanking me" "Becca I'm sorry for pushing Connor, are you sorry for putting me in time out?"
He just never stops. I try to tell him that Mommies and Daddies have to be "mean" sometimes when kids don't follow directions-but it doesn't matter-he continues with "yeah but are you sorry?" errrr And then of course I cave and say "I am sorry, but next time I really need you to follow directions so you don't get in trouble again." And then get THIS! He replies with "I do, but you hurt my feelings when you were mean to me and that's why I did it/or that's why I am crying" So basically he is saying that whatever it was that he did wrong was my fault in the first place anyway (which is obviously not true)! Ahhh, that little nut! I love him, I do, but he really throws me for a loop sometimes!
3 comments:
Oh my gosh! They ARE so alike! I agree that fighting/pleading with a 3 year old feels like fighting with a teenager. Lately Tyler's thing is "you're not my mom anymore!" ouch!
We tell our kids that it isn't our choice to put them in time out. It is theirs. They know the rules and when they CHOOSE to do something naughty then they CHOOSE to go to time out. As a parent we are just following the rules.
Oh sad Kirsti!! lol...darn kids!
Thanks Kim I will def. do that! That's a good idea!
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