It's not because I'm lucky

Do you recognise the line "you are so lucky with your kids".

Really? So nothing to do with the fact that the kids get all our attention; read with them every night, visit the library once a week, work with them on their homework and not least talk with them all the time, about all sorts of subjects, nothing is of limits if they bring up the subject.

Now when the person who throws the above phrase is not choosing to do the same and their off-spring and expect their kids to just turn out 'right', then please don't compare my kids with yours because it has nothing to do with luck.

I'll give you "Ok"!

What does Ok mean?

"Please turn off the TV" > "Ok"
"Come for dinner" > "Ok"
"Stop doing that" > "Ok"

What do you mean Ok?!?

Currently in our house it means, I hear you but....
So actually hears me much like a wall hears me.

I'm sure the only reason my son has the monopoly on this, is that my daughter is not old enough for those "Ok" hormones to have kicked in.

I find that suitable response is to say "Ok" when he asks for something he wants :)

8yr old teenager

I cannot tell you exactly when he turned into a pre-teen teenager but I think it was somewhere between the between "love you" and "It's my choice!!"

If I could just roll back to that previous I am sure all would be fine.

Now don't get me wrong he is a lovely kid, teachers tell us all the time how great he is. It is just that I feel, I am behind the curve in keeping my parenting skills moving as fast as he is growing. That and the fact that I am always wrong, apart from when I do what he wants me to do.

Was I really so surly? Nah, can't have been.  :-)

Maybe it is all just payback for what our parents went through. 

"But I was angelic!"

Deja vu mon petit fille

The little girl is going through same as the boy, three years apart. Morning started well enough, children woke with smiles....then little one said "not going nursery. Stay home!" Cue lots of crying and pulling and cries of, "take work clothes off". Grandparents arrived to do the nursery and school morning runs. As if by magic parents give to work and all screaming and crying stops. At least I know what is coming, always 3 years in advance.  :-P

Pre teenage hormones

Realised this weekend that there is at teenager inside my seven year old boy.
Some how does not seem right that my little baby has been taken over.

Do not cross the road without looking, please do you're home-work, come to table for dinner are all phrases guaranteed at the moment to ensure that I am wrong for some reason.
So after a day with this "teenager", he just as suddenly switched back to my sweet child again.

I am realising that I have to adapt a lot quicker to my son growing up than I thought I would.

To cap it all, could not get him to do his home work writing over the weekend, but he gets up this morning and finishes 2xA4 sides in twenty minutes.

Oh how I am looking forward to teenage years (NOT!)