Bring on the army, navy, national guard…someone because Mama K needs backup! For whatever reason, our boys have completely flipped their lids the last couple of days. Maybe it’s because we’ve been sick (and Dee and I have shown weakness), maybe it’s the change in weather and hopefully it’s not a new phase for us.
I can’t really describe it, they are just acting out and being generally disrespectful and thinking it’s hilarious when we get angry.
Just to vent about some of the things….Trey decided to write (with a ball point pen) all over the playroom, Carlos has been stealing things again (little things from us and others…watch your stuff!), Levi has decided that he’s too serious and had a talk with a kid at school about being more funny. Problem is, his idea of funny is back talking and laughing about any discipline. Even at school. Not cool.
Then last night, we were at the pool for swimming lessons and the program director came up to us (when we were sitting with friends, of course) and talked to us about how having Carlos and Trey in the same class doesn’t work well and that we should think of options to change that. Trey won’t stay with his hand on the wall (uh, he’s ADHD with an emphasis on the HD) and Carlos just isn’t listening (he’s a bright kid, you gotta set down the rules from day 1 with him or he will run over you). My anger comes, not because they are acting up but because apparently it’s been going on for the last year we’ve been swimming and doing lessons but it’s just now that someone has had the guts to come talk to us about it. Give me a break, if you don’t tell me there’s a problem then how can I fix it or even talk to my boys? Personally, I know they feed off eachother, but I also think that if you tell them “no” and sit them out if they are acting out, the problem will be solved. They both qualify to have an aid (since they have IEPs) but the pool hasn’t done that until last night. It seemed to work. Oh well, it was frustrating and embarassing to be “that mom” with kids who weren’t listening to the teacher. And thanks for saying all this in front of my friends. Awesome.
Anyhow….enough venting. We’ll go on and do Halloween then things are going to really change at our house. Schedules will be followed, chores will start back up, privileges will be earned. Sounds fun, eh? 🙂