Before I came to live here I used to believe:-
1. Boys should be taught by their mothers/fathers to do housework. Surely it can’t be that difficult?
2. Children who refuse to go to school should not be allowed to go out with their friends in the evening. You just tell them they can’t go and they, sulkily, will agree to stay at home! Right?
3. Children who say they are too ill to go to school should stay in bed until they feel better. If they are too ill to study then surely they are too ill to hang around the town centre?
4. Children who steal from their parents should be made to pay it back – perhaps through working in the house? They’ll love you for it later.
5. Mobile phones are a luxury, NOT a necessity. Why do some parents pay for contracts only to be scared witless by the monthly bills?
6. People who give their children expensive mobile phones have only themselves to blame when they get broken through lack of care.
7. Children need to eat fruit and vegetables every day. If you let them refuse and permit them to eat nothing but pasta and pizza and fried croquettes, washed down with coca cola, then you are an idiot.
8. Televisions are there for everyone in the house, what person in their right mind would allow a child to dictate what everyone watches?
9. Gradually children will become more and more independent and responsible for their own money, hygiene and personal belongings. Watching this process will bring a self satisfied smile to your lips.
10. If you treat your child with respect as well as love they will not lie, steal or swear at you.
11. Having a child brings love and joy and laughter and hugs into your life.
What a fool I was! Is it always this difficult? Why?
Lol, yeah, it can suck. Sounds like you have it tough. Personally, if my oldest daughter throws one more tantrum, I’m going to throw her out the window, lol.
Ahh, most of that is true, most of the time…from the trenches I speak…..
not so stupid to me and it is what I do, and always have.
This made me laugh! Sorry, I’m sure it’s not really a laughing matter but it was written in such an amusing way. Coming in late to the whole growing-up process must be very frustrating, it’s easier if you have a say right from the start.
That said, I think my daughter Emma wasn’t really difficult as an adolescent so I can’t talk.
Hang on in there xx
But all those things you say are true. Boys should be taught to do housework. Children who are sick should stay home. Cell phones are a luxury (mine got theirs when they learned to drive and not before). You didn’t raise this child from infancy, did you? This child was taught by someone else . . .
and yes, it is difficult.