This week has been a toughy with my middle son Ten Boy Jack. As his name suggests he’s Ten, and just hit that age.
He hates school, he hates his big sister (who teases him relentlessly) and I think sometimes he hates me too.
I know he is just flexing his baby man muscles and trying to find his place in the family now he’s growing up, but the constant answering back and always knowing better stuff can get a bit waring at times.
Last week he was banned from anything with a screen, an ingenious plan that Big J came up with. It meant that for a week he had no TV no INTERNET, no i pod touch, no x box 360 and no Nintendo ds…. for Jack, this basically meant no life!
But still by the end of the week he was muscling up and giving all the back chat, so even though painful he got banned for another 3 days, gutted!
Sometimes its hard, I’m a big softie so he has a few big doe eye and even bigger tears tricks that he likes to pull on me.
And I also have a irrational fear, as a split family and somehow especially as he’s a boy, I have this horrible fear in the pit of my stomach that he’ll want to go live with his Dad some day. (more…)
