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should i be worried....?

Kilgore Trout

Kilgore Trout

Misanthropic Humanist
It's good to get him used to doing everything a woman tells him to do, as that will probably end up being the circumstances of most of his life.
 
waitasec

waitasec

Veteran Member
Sleeppy said:
Where did you get the idea for the thread from?
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from this little discourse with idav....


idav said:
Then what does work? Gods law, mans law, our own law?

All of them are tools for applying sound and logical morality. If someone doesn't know why something is wrong then they need to be told why as if they were a child needing time out.

People who just do whatever with no remorse or pity normally end up locked up with some sort of sociological issue.
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waitasec said:
i also wonder about people who do things simply because they were told to...
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idav said:
Yeah a lot of times our motives are to please someone in power, not always the smartest thing.
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waitasec said:
and, as annoying as it is, if my son didn't question my authority, there is something terribly wrong...
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Draka

Draka

Wonder Woman
waitasec said:
he's 7...


in all seriousness...
cleaning up his room has been a struggle
getting him to do his homework has been a challenge...and i have to use ultimatums to get him to sit and work...but recently it's getting easier.

the accordion part...no, i would never do that to him... that was something i went through when i was a kid...
;)
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I feel you. My son is 5 and I may as well be telling him to perform brain surgery when I tell him to pick up his room. He totally tunes me out. Doesn't care at all. I can tell him something 15 times and it flies through his ears without so much as a pit stop. I get so frustrated. My 3y/o daughter's reactions to my instructions seems to depend on if her brother is around and what his reaction is. Unfortunately we are in a 2 bedroom place now so the kids share a room. This makes his influence on her pretty great. We really need to find a 3 bedroom or larger place so the kids can be separated into their own rooms. :sad:
 
waitasec

waitasec

Veteran Member
Draka said:
I feel you. My son is 5 and I may as well be telling him to perform brain surgery when I tell him to pick up his room. He totally tunes me out. Doesn't care at all. I can tell him something 15 times and it flies through his ears without so much as a pit stop. I get so frustrated. My 3y/o daughter's reactions to my instructions seems to depend on if her brother is around and what his reaction is. Unfortunately we are in a 2 bedroom place now so the kids share a room. This makes his influence on her pretty great. We really need to find a 3 bedroom or larger place so the kids can be separated into their own rooms. :sad:
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hang in there sweetie...
there are easier days ahead... :hug:
 
Sunstone

Sunstone

De Diablo Del Fora
Premium Member
waitasec said:
i don't know,
my son does everything i ask him to.

when i tell him to clean his room, he stops in his tracks and cleans his room without a peep.
when i ask him to do his homework, same thing...when i ask him to take an interest in playing the accordion, he's interested.
it feels as though my will became his.


you don't think my threat of throwing him in the fireplace for second guessing me has anything to do with it? :sarcastic

but i know there will be a down side to this...
right now he's little and easy to manipulate...but there will come a day when he won't be...

should i be worried?
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Are you sure he wasn't mixed up at the hospital with the spawn of space aliens?
 
Draka

Draka

Wonder Woman
waitasec said:
hang in there sweetie...
there are easier days ahead... :hug:
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Thanks. There also seems to be a divide in reactions to if I say to do something and when my hubby says to do something. Evenings in our home usually sound something like this:

me:Ok kids, time to pick up your room. Pick up those toys.
*some minutes later*
me: you haven't picked anything up, start by picking up your blocks, now or you will face the wall
*totally ignored*
me:Wall now!
*after a couple minutes of whining in time out*
me: ok, now are you ready to pick up now?
*daughter tentatively starts picking up without saying anything*
son: I don't wanna!
(if my husband is home from work that night)
*hubby comes stomping through house and up to kids' bedroom door*
hubby: your mother told you to do something now do it!
son: ok!
*back and forth slacking off and daddy's booming voice until room is picked up*

Of course when he's at work the night takes a different turn where I end up having to pick up their room with my daughter while my son throws a fit in time out. :areyoucra
 
waitasec

waitasec

Veteran Member
Draka said:
Thanks. There also seems to be a divide in reactions to if I say to do something and when my hubby says to do something. Evenings in our home usually sound something like this:

me:Ok kids, time to pick up your room. Pick up those toys.
*some minutes later*
me: you haven't picked anything up, start by picking up your blocks, now or you will face the wall
*totally ignored*
me:Wall now!
*after a couple minutes of whining in time out*
me: ok, now are you ready to pick up now?
*daughter tentatively starts picking up without saying anything*
son: I don't wanna!
(if my husband is home from work that night)
*hubby comes stomping through house and up to kids' bedroom door*
hubby: your mother told you to do something now do it!
son: ok!
*back and forth slacking off and daddy's booming voice until room is picked up*

Of course when he's at work the night takes a different turn where I end up having to pick up their room with my daughter while my son throws a fit in time out. :areyoucra
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**pulls hair**
isn't that interesting. i do that too, while thinking to myself...'why am i picking this up?'

i am going to stop picking things up, let the house go into complete disarray and if anyone complains, i'll throw a fit...
how about them apples....;)
 
Draka

Draka

Wonder Woman
waitasec said:
**pulls hair**
isn't that interesting. i do that too, while thinking to myself...'why am i picking this up?'

i am going to stop picking things up, let the house go into complete disarray and if anyone complains, i'll throw a fit...
how about them apples....;)
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Exactly! I think the same thing "why am I picking this up?" and even ask the kids that too. Did I play with all these toys? Did I pitch blocks behind the bed? Did I stick play kitchen utensils in the heating vent? NO. So why should mommy have to pick all this up??? On the nights I just do NOT want to deal with it and they are taking too long I have been known to shove it all to the side and tell them to deal with it the next day. Of course the next day they are complaining because they can't find this or that. I tell them if they picked up their room they'd know where everything is. :p
 
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