Quite stressed ATM anyway and trying not to take it out on the dc. Ds (5) was acting up all day yesterday, (things like dipping his green beans in his drink at the table then when I had took the water away from him 5 minutes later he was trying to sneak his drink back which if I hadn't seen would of tipped my wine everywhere) he eventually got sent to bed early as I just couldn't cope with his not listening. He broke my lamp, opened 3 more bags of crisps after I told him he could have one and stuff like that.
Anyway had a chat last night about listening to me again and what happens when he doesn't. He understands I think. Till this morning when I'm in the bath he says he's hungry can he have more cereal, well that's fine help yourself and he takes my cereal. He knows that the curiously cinnamon squares are mine and not anybody else's, he did this yesterday as well and I'm really not happy. They both choose a cereal each when they're other one runs out plus there's usually Cheerios shreddies and frostys so why the hell is he taking mine! I might be slightly unreasonable about this as after all it is only cereal but the slyness of him sneaking it has really pissed me off.
ATM I've told him I'm not happy and I'm really considering not taking him to the party we're going to later. I am also thinking about making him give me a pound out his money box? Or AIBU and over reacting over a bowl of cereal.
AIBU?
AIBU and over reacting
InNeedOfBrandy · 31/03/2013 10:55
AnothershitIf you can't be judgy on the AIBU forum then where can you be? 
The OP did ask.
Blaming her pill for her inability to control her child takes the biscuit.
It's not her overreactions and subsequent grumpiness I'm worried about- it's her lack of anticipation and total amazement that 5yr olds well.....do things just like that- without thinking.
That's why they have parents.
ohmy, of course it's not ok, but it's probably best to not make a huge deal over it...down playing minor naughtiness is usually the best way to go. My God, if each minor transgression by a 5 year old results in not going to parties and taking their pocket money, where else do you have to go when they do something really naughty?!
OP, it probably sounded like I was being sarcastic earlier, but I didn't mean to be. Well done for making the GP appointment.
I find my 5 year old challenging sometimes - and I do mean really challenging - but she's always easier and far better behaved when I am calmer and feeling happier. She is always better when I focus on her good stuff and not on her not so good stuff. It can be bloody difficult sometimes and seem relentless. Good luck with it all and please try and go eady on your little boy.
My DS used to love bran flakes as a child and shreddies.
Weirdo 
I have just switched back to the yasmin pill as i was angry, grumpy, depressive full of rage on Mercilon!
After 2 months only Can honestly say i feel a million times happier resulting in dd being happier and not walking on eggshells around me!
Can totally sympathise with your situation
OP, that sort of naughtiness like dipping green beans in water, nicking an extra packet of crisps or stealing some forbidden cereal was the sort of misdemeanour that would make my father irate and decide on punishment as a way of justifying his anger... if he was this angry it was because we had made him angry and thus deserved punishment iyswim.
He would do things like withhold pocket money [rarely gave any pocket money anyway so we barely noticed it 
], or decided we weren't to go to a birthday party, or would go to bed without dinner, or take our bedroom door off the hinges for any 'backchat' or somesuch...
Oh yes, he was a bundle of laughs our Dad growing up. I am 40 yo now and have still not forgotten how unreasonable and OTT he was.
Don't let that happen between you and your DS OP!
Well we had a lovely day, I made sure to stress how nice the party had been and how good they had both been and what lovely behaviour and sharing went on. Get home ds straight away opens his party bag I say don't eat the lolly as your getting in the bath now and I go into the bathroom to run the bath come back to the living room and he's eating the lolly! I say calmly ds what did I tell you and he said not to eat the lolly and smiled at me and put the lolly back into his mouth! 
so I told him to put the lolly in the bin. Why can he not just listen
Thank you rindercella yes I'm on my own and always the bad guy.
Trouble sounds fun but my ds is bad enough behaved as it is without doing more
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