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September 20, 2005, 9:56 am PDT
09/20 Little Mean Girls
Quote From: missjane2Well if you want this little boy to come stay with you for a week to see if you can do a better job?...... It's maybe what they call the STRONG WILLED CHILD. At 10:30 at night he comes to me with 5 board games and says "I want to play a game before I go to bed." I say it's time to go to bed you have school tomorrow. He says "I want to play some games." I say "You are going to bed." He says, "We are going to play some games and that's final!" And let me tell you it's cute at first and almost funny. But when a kid like this lives with you 24/7. It WEARS on you and makes you tired. You somehow compromise and do give in. He has brought 100 ants in a box into my nice kitchen because he thought I wanted to see them. He has had 2 spiders in a jar living in my basement for a month that I only found out about when he ran to get them to show a visitor. He collects bees nests. When I screamed when I saw them in our garage, He said" "Oh, don't worry mom I killed them all." Missjane, that is ridiculous!! I have 3 kids myself, 14, 13 and 8 and even though I think EVERYTHING the little one does is cute and adorable, I would NEVER allow him to say "we're going to play some games and that's final" HOLY CRAP!! That's crazy!! How on earth could you reward that kind of mouth? You can bet your bottom dollar that this child will speak like that to his teacher / principal / child care worker, etc. and is going to have his little heart broken when someone actually stands up to him. I'll never understand how parents like you set your children up to fail in society. Do you actually think that anyone other than you is going to put up w/that? Why would let him go around thinking that acting that way is OK? You're supposed to teach him the proper way to act, not set him up to fail. And acting like that, he WILL fail.
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