Trouble in Paradise
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Re: Bump c&p- Yes, Mommy Dearest!
Thats ok I did as well! When I read that I thought, wait, you are a single mother on bedrest with another pregnancy??? Umm, maybe your kids don't want to help you because you got yourself knocked up again. Just sayin and all.
I don't know much about children, but isn't 8 years old still a pretty crtical age to be getting 8-9 hours of sleep?
If I was that p*ssed, I might consider waking up a19 year old up, but not an 8 year old. Bread crumbs and clothes on the floor (right next to the hamper, mind you) can wait until morning. If it really was just a few minutes, they could easily do it between breakfast and brushing their teeth.
I agree.
Currently Reading: Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes
I'm most annoyed by the number of women who said that their 30something husbands can't pick up after themselves. WTF??
I think waking them up in the middle of the night to clean up some crumbs and toss some clothes in the hamper is kind of over the top. And by "kind of," I mean so far past the top you're in outer space.
And I also side-eye the pregnant single mom thing. Is the 19 year old taking care of the 8 and 2 year olds? Because I was having to parent my mom's kids, I'd be less inclined to clean up some damn crumbs, too.
See, I'm not so far away from this. If it is a bunch of crumbs and dirty clothes next to the hamper, eh, that's not a big deal. But if I had told him repeatedly that he needed to pick up his toys when he was done with them, and he blatantly ignored him, and for some reason I wasn't able to check before bed, then I stepped on or tripped over a toy, I'll bet he wouldn't "forget" again when his little fanny was cleaning up at 3 am.
Plus, there's a difference between saying you'd like to toss the kid outa window and actually doing it, kwim? And clearly they didn't 'learn their lesson' after the first 3 am wakeup because they did it again, imo adding to the notion that it's such a smallinfraction they barely notice what it is to take care of it. Bleh.
I'm not all about the OP, really. She kind of reminds me of my parents, who believed that since I lived in their house, I shold clean it and take care of their kids while they... didn't. I don't think my dad has ever run the washing machine, even though he's got great ideas on how his kids should have done it. I could go on and on about how I got screwed as a kid on the house cleaning front.
I think imoan isn't totally in the wrong though.
And back to the OP, I think this is probably the least of the injustices that she has imposed on her kids.
Currently Reading: Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes