Pushing

Here lately some of the things the girls have done are just driving me nuts.

I give an inch, they take, or at least want, a mile. I tell them they can go play for an hour, they whine and complain that it isn’t enough time. I say they need to stay home that day, and all I hear all day long is how unfair it is, even though it’s the first day in weeks that I’ve had them stay home all day. Grr…..

Meg has especially gotten bad about having a temper tantrum befitting of a two year old any time she does not get her own way. I have come up with acouple of different plans to neutrilize this problem. Things around home may not be happy for a few weeks until I get these problem behaviors ironed out, but things will go a lot smoother and happier after the rough patches.

Meg is not the only one pushing lately. Des has different ways of expressing herself, but she does express herself in ways that irritate the heck out of me. She has gotten into the bad habit of just ignoring me when I tell her to do something. Or if I am talking to her, she will just walk aways as if she didn’t hear me. This to will change, and soon!!