Sometimes I feel like I fail as a mom.
I used to think that once I become a mom, I would be the best mom ever. I would have the most obedient children in the world. They would listen to my every command and do my every request. Parents all over the world would look at me with envy as they constantly compare their own children to mine.
I’m snapped out of my delusional dream as my 3-year-old son is shoving me out the door and telling me to go away. He spits food on the floor everywhere and every time he pleases. He refuses to pick up after himself after being told multiple times. Basically, he doesn’t listen at all unless he gets what he wants first.
Where did I go wrong? How could I, the disciplinarian, have produced such a child? Or could it be someone else’s fault? Maybe Grandma had too much of a parental role when he was younger. Maybe Daddy is too much of a push over.
Or it could simply be a defiant stage that he hopefully will outgrow.
I’m hoping for the latter and wishing for the best. Otherwise…I’m selling him on Craigslist.
wow, little rebel. Are you being too hard on him? Maybe it’s time to read bedtime stories and just lighten up on the feelings before he becomes a teen. Otherwise it sounds like: “do this as mommy says or else”.
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January 17th, 2012