My children instantly put me in a horrible mood when I picked them up from school today. They were having trouble following through with doing their home work and chores. So that put me in even worse of a mood.
By the time I dropped Alex off at football practice and Dylan, Aiden, Miley, And Joey off at Bible quizzing.....I started to feel better. I had thought about buying the kids ice cream and telling them we can start our moods over...etc etc.
That was until I got a God awful report from my friends at the church that my kids, with the exception of Dylan, we're bad...And had to be put in time out.
If I were a cartoon, I am certain that to illustrate my anger I would have steam coming from my ears.
After ripping into the kids for fifteen minutes about acting rude to me but to people at your church?! So I drove my happy butt to the store and bought ice cream for the children who were behaved and grounded the children from anything fun until tomorrow evening.
They cried and pleaded, but this Mom did NOT budge.
They have a chance to redeem themselves and have some ice cream tomorrow...But to add insult to injury the ones who behaved will get MORE ice cream.
And then when I thought to myself if I allow my kids to be rude to me....I am leaving the door open for them to be horrible to others. I have got to put my foot down more. I am not going to raise disrespectful jerks.
*sigh*
Until next time...
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