The word “No” is very valuable. Children must never learn that they can have everything they want. She has already taken her nine year old sister’s doll that I gave her for her birthday – necessitating my buying a new one. And my angel 9 year old hadn’t even complained about it.
No.
You cannot have everything you want. Things belong to other people and they are for them, not for you,
A lesson her father tried to teach her today when she wanted congratulatory balloons he received yesterday when it was finally announced at his workplace that he had gained a new role. I say finally because we knew and were waiting for the official announcement so when someone at his office sent me the announcement, it wasn’t news to me but she thought it was- telling me to spoil him. I had already said my words of affirmation when he told me that the Board has decided what they had decided.
“No” has given me 50 minutes of screaming. She has thrown things around. Tried to break her cracker into multiple pieces. Has pushed me. Has tried to bang her head on the wall. Picked up the landline and threw it down. Has tried to bite her sister – the nine year old…
Oh my word. What a morning when my pain tablets haven’t taken and I just want to cry ANYWAY.
The positive is that the Endodontist was just as angry as I was at the dentist who refused to fix their non permanent crown. Its is the first time someone in the medical field got angry at someone else. And that made me feel better. Pity that appointment wasn’t today.🫣
PS. Peace has reigned. She’s doing her usual happy shouting. I wish my heart could recover as quickly. I wish all the physical stuff didn’t make me worry about the future… Next time, the phone might break. Next time, she WOULD bite her sister. Next time, she might push me over. Next time, she MIGHT fracture her skull. But for now…I focus on the now. Time for me to phone the hospital radiology department and book the bilateral SI joint CT guided injections. Ouch.
They said I should write a book 