I feel bad that I yelled at R before we took off for school, but every morning, it’s the same scenario. . . The case of the missing mitten! God damn! I need to go all drill Sargent on these kids.
You see those crazy, strict, make you write an essay if you don’t follow the rules- parents on wife swap? I need to take a tip or two from them! R will be 5 in Feb and basically his responsibilities consist of :

*Putting his scarf, hat and gloves away when we get home.
*Cleaning up his mess.

I don’t think that’s bad at all! There are kids running a farm with their parents. If  all I ask, is to not lose a damn mitten, why must one of his mittens go missing every single morning?
He blamed his little bro. What else is the kid supposed to do? UMMM, not lose his f*cking mitten every single day.  I’m thinking of creating a reward chart and adding some responsibilities to his list. . We’ll see how it goes, haha.

Oh, and then there’s clean up time. Clean up time was so much fun when we could have the Barney song playing, and he thought he was saving the world by straightening up the living room, now it’s just an excuse for his attitude!

“R, Mommy is giving you 10 minutes to get this mess cleaned up, if you don’t clean it, you’re going to the thinking chair”.

“Okay, I’ll go in the thinking chair right now. I want to think.”

AY. What’s worse is that I wanted to laugh. I need to learn that he’s going to be 5 and talking back and saying quirky things is not CUTE ANYMORE. It’s rude and disrespectful. WHATEVER!