It's no secret my boy is having a hard time managing some of his emotions lately. Going to school and the things happening in the last six months seem to be the stressor. Reading a lot on my group and a lot of them start having some of these issues once school starts.
Now he is doing well in school. But what school starting means....he is exposed to a lot of kids who live with their parents. Not like our family. And I know there are a lot more nontraditional families than there were, but it is never the same as having Mommy and Daddy. And so school reminds him of the loss.
So today he got mad and in the process got hurt. Pain always makes things worse. So he went from disappointment about not getting a big ice cream cone to big pain and then it increased to where he grabbed a rock and threw it at my car. Now he has great aim and great strength for a six year-old. He hit the window of my car and it just shattered. It was a little rock with big consequences.
I was angry, but I just put him in the car and headed for home. It felt like it was going to be too late to find a fix for tomorrow. Well there were a few places open. One was supposedly open but I got voice mail. Well that person called back. This after I got ahold of someone else at another glass company who told me there was no way it could be fixed before Monday. It was too late to get a new window ordered.
The guy who called back told me they would find a piece of glass and come to my house tomorrow to fix it. And he was $100 less that the place that could not do it tomorrow. Cool.
The consequences for the little man? No he did not get spanked. Spanking does not work for him. So it is going to be a long month with no outings, no McDonald's, no nothing because I have to pay for that new window.
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