I will never be nominated for Mother of the year Award thread

[foxygoober]

Well, just this past Sunday, we were on vacation, two of my kids cried as we walked through a parking lot. . .one because we left the train table display, they have their own train table! The other because he wanted to go in the bounce houses-after my sister let them ride $20 worth of rides!
Is this normal for them?? NO! However they have figured out which relatives give in fairly easily-
Being the mean mom I am-I told the boys to quit crying they already had a great day and Daddy wouldn't be happy if they kept it up. . .They forgot all about fussing before we were out of the parking lot.

 

[foxygoober]

I guess it's time I start intervening when the boys start asking Grandma, etc, for stuff

She would have turned around and taken them to do what they wanted!I don't want to deal with them trying to see who else will give in to their fits!

 

[WriterofWords]

Oh eyah, I've left them on the floor of Wal Mart screeching! It wasn't Steven, it was my niece Michelle. She would throw herself on the floor and cry, scream, kick, you name it and her mom would buy an nice toy to shut her up. So when she pulled it on me I left her there and pushed the buggie around the corner where I could see her but she couldn't see me. I had people just glaring at me!! When she finally opened her eyes and noticed I wasn't there she shut up, jumped up, and about had a heart attack until I called her to me. She never did that again!

 

[cackydoodledoo]

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Please tell me you didn't use chicken math with your kids??? If my human math is correct you have 8 and 2 on the way??? Wow!!! You should at least get "Patient Mother of the Year Award"!! My two sometimes like to drive me batty so I can't imagine having ten of them. DH wants more though and so do I kinda!

 

[ChickenAlgebra]

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Please tell me you didn't use chicken math with your kids??? If my human math is correct you have 8 and 2 on the way??? Wow!!! You should at least get "Patient Mother of the Year Award"!! My two sometimes like to drive me batty so I can't imagine having ten of them. DH wants more though and so do I kinda!

Erm, no, our chicken math is way worse. It's gone to include guineas, ducks, geese, turkeys, peafowl and now I want emus.

I say it looks worse written down, but our kids are pretty well spread out. Oldest is very nearly 18.

 

[sfw2]

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Please tell me you didn't use chicken math with your kids??? If my human math is correct you have 8 and 2 on the way??? Wow!!! You should at least get "Patient Mother of the Year Award"!! My two sometimes like to drive me batty so I can't imagine having ten of them. DH wants more though and so do I kinda!

Erm, no, our chicken math is way worse. It's gone to include guineas, ducks, geese, turkeys, peafowl and now I want emus.

I say it looks worse written down, but our kids are pretty well spread out. Oldest is very nearly 18.

So you should actually be eligible for the "Mother-Every-Other-Year" award.

I don't know how you do it. It's a miracle my three survived childhood.

My son was a tantrum teen. After I, once again, "ruined his life" one day, he stomped off upstairs into his room, and slammed the door. Before the windows had stopped rattling, I was up the stairs with a hammer and screwdriver. Calmly opened the door, knocked out the hinge pins, and stood the door out in the hallway, while DS did this:

I don't remember how long it was before we reinstalled the door, but I remember he never slammed it, again.

Of course, he managed to outsmart me, sometimes. As a high school freshman, he was afflicted with a back problem: he couldn't get it out of bed to go to school in the morning. The umpteenth time that he missed the bus and came back in, whining that he needed a ride to school, I HAD HAD ENOUGH! I told him to walk to school. He looked at me in disbelief, realized I wasn't kidding, and walked out the front door. When I got home that evening, I smugly asked him how late he was for school. "Not very", he said. "As I was walking up Otterdale, some lady stopped and offered me a ride, and she drove me all the way to school".

This is the same son who, last year, at 24, hitchhiked to San Diego, from Virginia. I give up.

 

[ChickenAlgebra]

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I'm waiting for the real hellion child. So far, DSalmost18 (sniff, sniff, I'm not ready for my baby to grow up...) hasn't been a problem at all.

DD14 tries everything once or twice, but then figures it's not worth it. But DH did the exact same thing when she slammed her door because he was HORRIBLE and wouldn't let her go out to a late movie on a school night. Literally, the sounds were..

DD - I HATE YOU!!! You are so mean, I want to go out!

DH - No.

DD - You are such a JERK!

DH said nothing, you could hear crickets chirping...

DD - Well, aren't you going to change your mind and let me go?!?!

DH - No.

DD - *stomp* *stomp* *stomp* off to her room as loud as she can. *SLAM!* goes her bedroom door. The little kids were staring in that direction going errrm, what just happened????

DH walks into the garage, gets his tool kit, walks back to DD's room, removed the hinges, took the door off and walked everything back to the garage. Never said a word to DD, who was doing the

face.

DH walked back to the living room, sat back down and started reading his book again.

DD VERY quickly learned to not slam doors. Took privacy away from a teenaged girl. Such an effective punishment.

She often has a bedtime of 8:30 pm or when she's done with homework. She throws a whiny tantrum as well as the toddler, she is clearly tired, so she need to go to bed early. She whines/gripes about it, I'm MEAN. I go check on her in 20 minutes, she is dead to the world asleep.

 

[cackydoodledoo]

Most generally when my kids are throwing a fit it's because they are tired or exhausted. That's not to say that they don't try it when they are not tired. Sent DD6 to her room the other night because she was throwing a hissy fit over something stupid. Realized after about 10 minutes that it was way too quiet. Went in to check and she had pulled her pillow and blanket on the floor and was zonked and it was on 6:30!!!!!

 

[schellie69]

I am a grand ma now and I don't let my grand kids throw fits I do the same thing to them I did to my kids ignored them. Of course I do spoil them some but that's my job.

 

[ChickenAlgebra]

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Isn't that hilarious at some level? My kids STILL do not get why when they are being whiny over nothing, they have to go to their room for 15 minutes. Because brilliant children of mine, 99 times out of 100, I walk in at the end of the 15 minutes to release you from your horribly unfair punishment, you are asleep.

Works on teenagers/nearly teenagers also. They SWEAR they won't fall asleep, but they do more often than the little kids.