Small Victories
My precious SD is in addition to many other things NOT a morning person. She is rude and sullen most days. There have been many days where she has refused to get up and she and her dad have gotten into fights to get her to school on time. I never get involved with that foolishness.
This morning was pretty typical until FDH hollered for her to come downstairs and eat breakfast. I made my kid scrambled eggs - she did not want that so he made her cereal and toast. Whatever, I am only cooking one meal. So, when he said "come on" she smarted off to him saying "I'm coming, I'm coming sheesh" in a shitty tone of voice.
When she got downstairs, I made her look at me and said - you do not talk to your dad or any adult in that tone of voice again. do you understand me? She rolled her eyes and said yes. I stopped her right there and said - It is disrespectful to roll your eyes and me and if it happens again you will be sent to your room. Do you understand me? She said yes and I made her finish with a yes ma'am!
Shockingly, the rest of the morning was quite pleasant. It always amazes me that FDH doesn’t see that consistency, boundaries and consequences are the key to raising kids that don’t piss me off.
Good morning and Good Luck today Step parents!
Talk about reading my mind ..
Talk about reading my mind .. I had a VERY similar situation this morning! Granted, my skids are 4 and 6 and we generally have a pretty good relationship; but the older one is NOT a morning person. If she's going to test boundaries, first thing in the morning is usually when it happens. Unfortunately, I am not a morning person either, so it's quite trying for me to keep my cool
DH is law enforcement, so his schedule rotates. Right now he works nights, so he gets home in the weeee hours of the morning. I get the skids up and off to daycare. Because DH is sleeping, he doesn't usually witness the feet dragging, whining, crappy attitude that SD6 is to me in the morning.
This morning, however, her antics woke him up, and he was very quick to correct her (he's also not a morning person LOL). The rest of the morning and trip to school was very pleasant
I have the opposite problem.
I have the opposite problem. SS2 is very much a morning person while BF and I are not. He comes running into our room usually around 6am, jumps in our bed, and demands BF get up and change his diaper ('cause he can't be bothered to use the potty, & he's so spoiled he gets away with it). It drives me crazy, I don't want a kid with a night's worth of poopy diaper jumping on me when I'm trying to sleep (I don't get up with SS2, I sleep as much as I like thnx lol). BF will try and convince him to SLEEP IN OUR BED WITH US for another hour. Which drives me mad, because when he's in our bed he rubs his feet all over me and just talks and talks, never sleeps. (Which I have TOLD BF I'm not really okay with - go sleep in his bed with him if that's what you want). Today when he came into our room BF didn't hear him right away but I did so I said, "SS2, it is WAY too early to be awake. If you want to play quietly in your room you can, or else you have to go back to bed in your room and sleep." He chose the first option, obviously lol. And we got to sleep until 8am, ha.