I just tweeted this the other day…
But some of you aren’t on Twitter. Some of you have lives and leave your house and don’t feel the need to ‘tweet’ every random passing thought so that people know you still have thoughts and are still alive even though you have to stay home for naps every two hours…
For those of you, I will share what you are missing out on.
So, speaking of guilt trips…
So, it all started because Tay was acting in rare form after Jimmy got home from work. And when I say acting out, I mean he was screaming at the top of his lungs and kicking his arms and legs in the middle of our apartment complex. Kinda like this:
or even this:
Anyway, he had gone to check the mail with his dad, and on the race back, his neighbor friend was beating him. But, by the sound of things, Jimmy was abusing him right there in the middle of the commons area of this high class Apartment Complex. (not so high class…but I like to tell myself so.)
As I ran to the window, I think I may have seen every neighbor peeking out their windows with their cells phones ready to call CPS. Or I may have seen it in my mind, either way, I quickly closed my blinds and considered locking the door to act as though that didn’t belong to me.
He then spent a good amount of time, after a spanking, in the bathroom continuing the insane behavior, of which I can only assume he learned while watching The Exorcist. (I’m sure he’ll appreciate me likening him to that movie time and time again when he’s older. But really, there is no other better comparison.)
Long story short, because there is no need to put you through all the stress we went through that night…this behavior was repeated minor event after minor event. And as if CPS hadn’t been called enough that night, he continued to get spankings and continued to scream.
*Note to self, spankings don’t work.*
*Another note to self, not a fan of the phrase ‘note to self’*
Finally, at the last and final discipline of the evening, he sobbed hard into his daddy’s arms and wailed…
“Why do you always make me cry, Daddy? Why?!? I just love you!”
Ya, so um….about those guilt trips….
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This was too funny! Our kids use to do the same thing and Will can still put a good one together if he is really tired and hasnt had a nap. We dont spank anymore either. We did and your right they dont work. We just find a way to communicate with them and understand what it is they want. Sometimes its attention and sometimes they just want us to know that they arent happy about something and we tell them that is ok. It confuses the heck out of them and no more fits!
Love and Prayers,
Tim
Awww… that is a rough little guilt trip!
Oh..sorry for that. Didn’t look like much fun at all. I hope today is a better day!
Is it wrong that I think his last comment is hysterical?
Thanks for giving me a visual of the fun I am in store for in about 5 months. ha! Love it 🙂
awww…guilt trips are the WORST! definitely the toughest part or discipline…spankings don’t happen to often for us…but when they did our rule of thumb was a wooden spoon (cause we don’t spank with the hands we love with)…so after about two of those all we had to do was walk towards the kitchen and it was game over and happy face…n i c e!
Livin the dream Summer!! We’re just living. the. dream.
Sigh.
Oh, kids will be kids!
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I don’t know what is worse – tantrums that are out of control, or the guilt trips! Both suck, don’t they?
Is it wrong that I laughed at the tantrum videos? I need to start recording my kids’ tantrums.
Love his comment at the end…
Awwwww, that’s just too adorable and make your heart melt and YES, – major, major guilt trip. LOL
little devils playing on your heart strings like that. why do kids always do that?
Is he 4? Hayden is 4 and he always says stuff like “Mommy why are you so mad at me?” “Mommy it hurts my ears when you yell.”
*sigh*
Guilt here I am.
I will just wish I don’t have to go through that, even though I know it will happen at some point. The thing that worked the best for me with tantrums is to walk away. As long as he can’t hurt himself with the flaling, I just ignore him. I think it is the attention that they want, good or bad, so I don’t give it to him and he eventually stops. Hopefully it teached him that it won’tr work.
On a side not becasue I forgot to repond to your tweet, I like the black bathing suit with the cherris or the white with the red polkadots!
He must have a lot of endurance if he could keep on going. My kids peter out fairly quickly. I guess that will work out well for him when he’s working on that full-ride cross country scholarship to college in about 14 years. 🙂
I think he was trying to say….”I need sugar, something fried, a beer and a cigarette.” But it came out like a wretched screamfest. And you big people kept hearing “spanking, I need a spanking.”
Hahaha. Isn’t child rearing a kick in the pants?
I used to spank mine after a tantrum filled day and then later in the evening would realize they had a fever. Let’s talk guilt, sister.
fffffffuck. i don’t know how parents do it! bah. i used to babysit kids from hell back when i was a teenager. lord, the stories. good god, when kids are bad they are REAL BAD.
I remember those days and fear more are to come as my 19 month old gets bigger. Now with the 7 year old you get teen attitude!
I would like to think I’m the perfect parent because none of my kids have ever thrown tantrums as you described. But I know better… I am far from perfect and my kids act out in soooo many other creative ways.
Then again I can throw a whopper of a fit when I want to. lol
I’m sorry I’m laughing, it was funny. But, I’m guessing my laughing will come back and bite me in the butt soon enough when I get my dose of childhood temper tantrum reality . . . oh joy! 😉
my 14 month old has recently taken to such behaviors. I need it to stop now. I read an article that said to avoid the word “no”, avoid yelling yourself and try to distract them. Yeah, ok “expert” and how many kids do you have?
I’m just glad to hear that spankings are still fashionable. (Note to Self: ANYTHING Summer does is fashionable, so thank God she spanks her kids or I’d totally freak out.)
Really though, I think you guys are the best parents ever. BEST! <3
Oooohhhhhh – I played the video and Corban ran over and said “I see me, mama? I see me, too!”
Yep. *sigh*
I just went through this at the beach with j-bug. Yikes…
And I love how dad is hiding his laughter so well. You can hardly tell.
omg the dad in the second video is TRYING SO HARD NOT TO LAUGH!!!!!
My son watched the second one with me.
“Mommy, why does that boy not want to get out of the tub?”