dd is starting to play up this week for several reasons - dh is away for a fortnight, my mum is here practically all the time (I am recovering from ME so she is giving me a hand), and she is a frustrated 7 year old who does not get her way all the time
This morning she was not drinking her orange juice and after being asked to drink it several times she picked it up and spilled it over the table; this is teh second time she has done this.
I could see by my mother's face that she was sitting on her hands trying not to wallop her (that's what she would have done with me when I was a kid!). I told dd she could not have her computer on today and I switched it off at the wall; when she had calmed down I told her that her behaviour wasn't acceptable and then left it
I'm just finding it so hard this week because dh is away, my mother is here half of the time desperately trying to take my lead but at the same time using some of her own parenting techniques (this morning I don't think things would have come to a head so fast if my mum hadn't been wheedling dd to drink her juice). I really want to be completely on the ball with my parenting skills and I am not; I ought to read the book again but by the time I have fought them into bed I am just ready to drop
and dh is away and I am so tired and I am emotionally raw this week [drama queen emoticon] because of some news I got which really upset me
so I wondered if you would hang around and give me hearty slaps on the back or advice or nice cups of hot chocolate every so long to get me the next week or so