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  • Buttons I didn't know I had...

    So.

    I'm here in the computer room and Nikolai "I'd like to thank the Academy" Hussey is in his bedroom, hopefully contemplating the error(s) of his ways.

    For THREE days now he's been limping around the house. Oh woe is me kind of thing. This morning we had the neighborhood Easter egg hunt (side note- lots and lots of kiddos are moving in!) and he had to limp through the hunt.

    Finally, after going to the grocery store where he had to limp and kept telling me slow down and he couldn't possibly sit in the cart because he wouldn't bend his leg- I said F it and took him to the ER. I knew full well there was nothing wrong with him except for a smart mouth and bad attitude. Sure enough, three hours that I'll never get back, two x-rays and one bottle of children's motrin later- there is NOTHING wrong. Nothing.

    So, we're leaving the hospital and he's still limping. I LOST IT. I bent down in front of him and looked him in the eye and told him that there was nothing wrong with him and that he needed to start walking like a regular boy. The whole way to the car, he's still limping and by that point I'm practically yelling "there is nothing wrong with you." and he turns to me and starts sassing back at me. So then I said, "look, you're crusing for a spanking and getting your mouth washed out with soap." and the shithead turns to me and says, "you won't do it. you never do it."

    I had to get out of the car and take several deep breathes because I now know what the phrase "seeing red" comes from.

    Needless to say, we had a 'heated' discussion about people being really sick in the ER and wasting the doctors and nurses time, etc.

    When we got home, he was still doing the limp- I just picked him up, put him in his room and walked away. I turned his light off and I don't hear anything right now so I hope that means that his smartass self if chilling out.

    can you believe it? Three days of lying. My won't the teen years be fun.

    Jenn

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    Oh Lordy! He is lucky your his momma and not me!!! What a little pisher*!!!!









    From the Urban dictionary: Yiddish word to describe someone who is arrogant, spoiled, and conceited, and thinks he is a big deal. ( but then again at that age aren't they all? LOL)
    Last edited by Momo; 04-11-2009, 06:23 PM.

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    • #3
      Not trying to make you feel bad, but could it be muscle strain, which wouldn't show up on an xray? BTW, your mommy posts alway make me laugh!
      Luanne
      wife, mother, nurse practitioner

      "You have not converted a man because you have silenced him." (John, Viscount Morely, On Compromise, 1874)

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      • #4
        I don't think so Luanne- both Rick and the PA in the ER poked and prodded and he didn't even flinch- and pivoted on that foot in the ER.

        ARRGGGHHHH.

        Jenn

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        • #5
          He should look into acting...that is some serious commitment. I couldn't fake a limp for 10 minutes.
          Danielle
          Wife of a sexy Radiologist and mom to TWO adorable little boys!

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          • #6
            Whoa!!

            If he weren't so darn cute.......

            I hope he snaps out of it. I wonder what's going on!
            married to an anesthesia attending

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Tenacious_D View Post
              He should look into acting...that is some serious commitment. I couldn't fake a limp for 10 minutes.
              No kidding!

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              • #8
                Deep breaths, momma.

                Reminded me of this video of a kid not wasting a minute of his star performance temper tantrum:

                http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xm4OwPd7xc
                Angie
                Gyn-Onc fellowship survivor - 10 years out of the training years; reluctant suburbanite
                Mom to DS (18) and DD (15) (and many many pets)

                "Where are we going - and what am I doing in this handbasket?"

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                • #9
                  That is funny, Angie.

                  Here is to the dude harnessing his powers of perseverance for good not evil.
                  Last edited by cupcake; 04-11-2009, 10:54 PM.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by cupcake View Post
                    Here is to the dude harnessing his powers of perseverance for good not evil.
                    My mom always used to say that.
                    Last edited by cupcake; 04-11-2009, 10:59 PM.

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                    • #11
                      Sounds like Caleb. Mr. I have a stomach ache if there is something I don't want to do. (like go to bed or clean up). Drives me batty.
                      Kris

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by DCJenn View Post
                        So then I said, "look, you're crusing for a spanking and getting your mouth washed out with soap." and the shithead turns to me and says, "you won't do it. you never do it."
                        Wait...I thought you didn't practice corporal punishment...am I mixing you up with someone else? If so, please ignore the below (sorry!!).

                        Two important rules of war:

                        1. Never threaten use of force you don't have or don't intend to use.

                        2. Know your enemy and know what he knows.

                        If you don't practice corporal punishment and your kids knows it, you'll weaken both your offense and defense positions by threatening to use it. It will be am empty threat and therefore empower the enemy in his boldness. You must pick a new stragegy for frontal assault.

                        The threat of spanking works for us because spanking is in our arsenal of weapons. Which is nice, because I hate to spank, so I like that I merely have to threat to do it. It is just really hard on those rare occasions when threatened of consequences does not contain the enemy.

                        Pick a different tactical manuever, one that will cause the fear of God, based on your acceptable choice of battle technique.

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                        • #13
                          I have no problem with judicious use of corporal punishment. and I have used it- I think maybe twice. With my son's personality though, it doesn't work. He's as stubborn as I am.

                          That said, I'm 100% on following through so he was just talking smack to piss me off even more.

                          His usual punishment for serious infractions of the verbal variety (spitting, rude backtalk, etc.) are a bit of Dove on his toothbrush (dirty mouth after all). He's only spit once...

                          This is something different. This goes beyond pissing me off and beyond attention seeking behavior. We're working on behavior extinction principles right now. (Right now recognizing positive behaviors seems to be helping.) Who knew that those behavior change classes in grad school would come in handy as a parent?

                          I'm drinking bloody marys though so today is better already.

                          J.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by DCJenn View Post
                            I'm drinking bloody marys though so today is better already.

                            J.
                            Excellent!!

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                            • #15
                              I've been there...

                              The only thing that kept me parially sane was totally ignoring it... That's hard, though, because other people don't ignore it-- I'm sure some adults and kids at the Easter Egg party were asking him about his *injury*...

                              Sigh...

                              I don't even try to offer advice anymore. My kids have beaten it all out of me...
                              Peggy

                              Aloha from paradise! And the other side of training!

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