Had to laugh tonight. Boy child (9) not going to bed! Finally he melts down and divulges problems of the day while cuddling the current husband. He's sobbing 'I've had a really bad day, 5 really bad things have happened to me today. The 1st is that I have to go to bed now, the 2nd is that I couldn't find a pen in the whole of the house because I wanted to draw. The third is that I banged my head at swimming because so and so pushed me. The 4th is that so and so was calling me names so I called him gay and then the 5th is that the teacher didn't see any of this and threatened to call my parents into the school - aarrrgggh it so not fair'. Went into nice comforting mum mode without laughing! Does it get easier?
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