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kitsap_charlesWhen the kids lie to me, or when they just ignore me completely.
Yesterday I asked the middle two kids repeatedly to take out the garbage and recycling. Repeatedly. Nothing happened. Finally I noticed they'd gone to bed, and on their bedroom door was a note promising they'd do it first thing in the morning.
Got up this morning, and they'd already left for school. Was the garbage and recycling taken out? Hah!
They've been grounded so often they just don't care. Neither one of them seems to care enough about anything that restricting it fazes them.
Oh, and the eldest and her friend wanted some items from the grocery store so they could make treats for a school party, so off we went. We bought some other things that we needed, including some non-dairy frozen desserts for the (lactose-intolerant) littlest one and some needed bathroom supplies. Hours later, I was in the bathroom and noticed the bag sitting on the toilet tank. It it were the bathroom items and the box of not very frozen treats. Eldest's friend carried the bag in and just dropped it there, without bothering to see what was in it. Oh, and the two of them trashed the kitchen while making their school yummies, and despite being reminded repeatedly (there's that word again) to clean up and run a load of dishes, the kitchen's still a shitpile.
In other news, we had to cancel the satellite TV service because we can't afford it any longer.
Yes, I'm pissed off. Why do you ask
Yesterday I asked the middle two kids repeatedly to take out the garbage and recycling. Repeatedly. Nothing happened. Finally I noticed they'd gone to bed, and on their bedroom door was a note promising they'd do it first thing in the morning.
Got up this morning, and they'd already left for school. Was the garbage and recycling taken out? Hah!
They've been grounded so often they just don't care. Neither one of them seems to care enough about anything that restricting it fazes them.
Oh, and the eldest and her friend wanted some items from the grocery store so they could make treats for a school party, so off we went. We bought some other things that we needed, including some non-dairy frozen desserts for the (lactose-intolerant) littlest one and some needed bathroom supplies. Hours later, I was in the bathroom and noticed the bag sitting on the toilet tank. It it were the bathroom items and the box of not very frozen treats. Eldest's friend carried the bag in and just dropped it there, without bothering to see what was in it. Oh, and the two of them trashed the kitchen while making their school yummies, and despite being reminded repeatedly (there's that word again) to clean up and run a load of dishes, the kitchen's still a shitpile.
In other news, we had to cancel the satellite TV service because we can't afford it any longer.
Yes, I'm pissed off. Why do you ask
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Date: 2002-06-05 09:43 am (UTC)Good luck!
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Date: 2002-06-05 10:00 am (UTC)Re:
Date: 2002-06-05 10:15 am (UTC)Re:
Date: 2002-06-05 11:22 am (UTC)I never stop questioning myself, either. There are so many ways to mess up, and yet in the long run everything seems to even out. I was a model child, of course, and never gave my parents a moment of trouble...
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Date: 2002-06-05 10:19 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2002-06-05 11:35 am (UTC)And single kids are different from those with near-age sibs, too.
Regardless, I'm sure you and Cindy are more than just "lucky"; you're good people whose heads are on straight and I'm sure Tasha recognizes that and responds in kind.
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Date: 2002-06-05 03:35 pm (UTC)when I was a kid
we had one of those big freezers in the garage
and one time i got some ice cream out
and left the door hanging wide open
it was a really hot day
and the door wasn't discovered for a long time
everything in the freezer was ruined
and there was a lot in there
if ever my parents were going to murder me,
they would have done it right then and there
24 years later i still feel bad about it
i grew up and now
i give my parents trouble in other ways
so i guess parenthood is a lifetime sentence :-)
you're a sweetie for being a good dad
i hope the job landscape improves for you shortly
sending positive energy your way
rita
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Date: 2002-06-05 05:55 pm (UTC)I'm sure I did crap too, but the thing I remember most was when I almost ruined the Thanksgiving turkey. I have no idea why it needed to be in the oven in the wee hours of the morning-- maybe Mom was slow-baking it, who knows?-- but I'd gotten up to pee and noticed that the oven was on. I figured it had been accidentally left on, and turned it off.
Then I opened it, and saw it was actually cooking something.
Now, this was back before the days of self-lighting ovens-- if you wanted it on, you had to turn on the gas and light it with a match. And there was so much hot air coming out of the opened oven door that I couldn't keep a match lit long enough to restart the oven. I tried maybe a dozen times in as many minutes, until it finally caught.
I never told Mom what I'd done, because it really didn't harm anything and I'd just get into trouble. I wish I could say we all got food poisoning because the turkey was undercooked, but honestly there was no way that bird could ever be anything but done.
Thanks for the good energy. That plus a nap has me feeling much better now.
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Date: 2002-06-06 12:34 pm (UTC)you're welcome
glad to hear the kids are minding
feel good a lot and soon
rita