parenting is the pits sometimes. I don't deny that my kids have me wrapped around their tiny little fingers, especially the girls, but there's is absolutely no joy in being a parent when you spend a whole evening scolding them for countless acts of disobedience.
It puzzles me how a 5 year old still hasn't been able to figure out what things anger her daddy, and what things make him happy.
It's not a long list. In fact, if my oldest wrote them out, it would read:
1. Daddy likes it quiet. This means no shouting in the house.
2. Daddy does not like to be interrupted. If we need to talk to him and he's talking to Mommy, we need to first say excuse me, and wait for him to finish, then he will talk to us.
3. No fighting.
4. No whining.
5. If we run in the house and hurt ourselves, Daddy will have little pity, for he has told us many times not to run in the house.
6. Crying only gets us an angry Daddy, unless we're very sad about something or unless we're hurt. Being very sad about having to go to bed isn't good enough, neither is being very sad about not getting to wear the jammies I wanted to wear.
7. Daddy doesn't like it when we play in our beds after bedtime.
8. Daddy doesn't like it when we get out of bed after bedtime, unless it's to go potty.
9. Daddy loves hugs.
10. Daddy loves kisses.
11. Daddy loves big squeezes when we hug.
12. Daddy loves it when we say "yes Daddy" or "okay Daddy" after he tells us to do something like go to bed.
13. Daddy loves it when we say "please" and "thank you".
14. Daddy doesn't like it when we don't listen to him.
15. Daddy really really doesn't like it when we lie to him.
16. Daddy really doesn't like to get mad at us.
Okay fine. It's a long list for a 5 year old, but you'd think she'd get one of those...right?
I don't see them much during the day, and when I do, the last thing I want is to have to punish them for breaking some of their rules...makes me feel like a big ogre, but at the end of the day my wife is done with them (bless her soul she puts up with a lot) and they become mine when I get home (unless I have more work to do - but I usually don't do that until after I put the kids to bed) so their time spent with me is when they're tired and ornery....I'll certainly miss them when they go away for 2 weeks.
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When I was a child, all the things that I liked to do are on the "Dad doesn´t" part of the list : )
that doesn't make me feel so good
>(. However, I was the exact same way. I'm hoping my children follow a more enlightened path through childhood and adolescence though.
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