I am still feeling a bit hurt and sad about DS this evening.
Today he was picked up by a friend's mum after Kindy and taken back to their house for lunch and a couple of hours play. We have a bit of a reciprocal thing going on, one day a week I have her DS and one day she has mine.
At 4 o'clock DH went to pick him up. They came back 15 minutes later and DS was in a foul mood. He came in and said that he didn't want to be picked up, didn't want to come home, wanted to stay at his friend's house forever, it was much more fun there and that he hated us, his sister and our house
I know he is only 4 and I know he is testing me all the way but I was really upset and hurt by what he had said.
I tried to ignore what he said at the time and stayed all smiley and asked him about his day but he sat on the sofa looking really fed up and pissed off. After about 10 minutes he asked really rudely where his dinner was and so I lost it and told him that there wasn't any and wasn't going to be any if he came home from people's houses with a face like that.
This then turned into a big crying session with DS and me sitting on the kitchen floor cuddling eachother and him telling me "But I love you mummy, please can I have my dinner?" .... So I felt really rotten for that
I feel like I am failing him somehow and I don't know what to do ... does he really hate being at home so much? What can I do? What would you have done in such a situation ....
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Ghosty · 21/07/2004 10:40
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