Lately I find myself going back and forth on almost a daily
basis loving my kids and thinking they are the best .. to thinking they are the
most selfish bastards on earth (sorry kids this is my place of true expression)
Welcome To adolescence! And now that I officially have three and all in high school ... I see that their worlds really do revolve around themselves only... The cornerstone of
Adolescence
Truly lately all we do is serve them. Drive them... Pick them up... Cancel our plans
for them. Cook for them, help them with chores.
And the worst is? We don't even really get any prize of acknowledgment or reward. They try to get out of being with us much of the time actually
I just surprised them tonight and told them I decided to take two days off at march break to chill at the cottage with them ..
And they looked at me in shock and said "What!!!" (Not in a good way) I even threw in they could have friends for two days and they looked at me and said” No. We don't want to go “and then they all stomped out of the room. Even my little daughter. So selfish and dumb.
Welcome To adolescence! And now that I officially have three and all in high school ... I see that their worlds really do revolve around themselves only... The cornerstone of
Adolescence
Truly lately all we do is serve them. Drive them... Pick them up... Cancel our plans
for them. Cook for them, help them with chores.
And the worst is? We don't even really get any prize of acknowledgment or reward. They try to get out of being with us much of the time actually
I just surprised them tonight and told them I decided to take two days off at march break to chill at the cottage with them ..
And they looked at me in shock and said "What!!!" (Not in a good way) I even threw in they could have friends for two days and they looked at me and said” No. We don't want to go “and then they all stomped out of the room. Even my little daughter. So selfish and dumb.
Well then I said :
“Well You know what ? We are going bc I need a break and so
does Dad and that is where we relax the most so yes you are coming " I
should just go alone with Hubby but cant ever leave them alone now that they
have girlfriends. Back to babysitting days and having to watch them every
moment.
An hour later after all acting like brats they forget about
it and start asking me to watch their dances or look at their art projects or
tuck them in . As though they are really nice people and I still even like them.
Weird
I am telling your this thing called teenagers are one weird species. Hopefully they won't be selfish forever? I
am not so sure anymore.
And on Mondays I wish truly they would all just shut up. Mondays
are bad enough without the sounds of their demanding selfish voices surrounding
me. Even at 10pm as I lay down to read for 5 mins, demands and requests and
needing, needing needing! Enough already!
I am telling you thank God I am not a stay at home mom. These
people would drive me crazy
Ps after I wrote this blog last night I text my Hubby and said
that we really need to take an alone vacation every year (last year skipped it and
brought the kids and I feel it now without any alone time for 15 months
now-barely been one dinner or night I am serious. Need to get away the two of
us this November for sure…)
We must be crazy-2 weeks Xmas vacation with these teens.
Every single weekend for ski season with no break and right after ski season
Costa Rica with them???? OMG!!! What were we thinking!!!!!! (Hopefully these
kids get more grateful, more kind and more giving between now and then!~
