10:53 am January 16, 2008You
Last night I had to ground the kids. It was 9:14pm and I came upstairs from the computer room to find them drawing and giggling and getting along together in Jachin’s bedroom. Well, I had to put a stop to that… the part about them being up 44 minutes past their bedtime, not the getting along part. I hastily blurted out that they were grounded from TV today.
As soon as I said the words, I knew that I had resigned myself to an afternoon of bored kindergartener wrath.
And so it is this afternoon. Zoe has been home from school for 38 minutes (not that I’m counting or anything) and she is already driving me absolutely insane. She has nothing to do! Going to clean her room would be boring. Playing in the playroom without the background noise of the television would also be sooooo boring. She follows behind me telling me of her lack-of-entertainment woes, and each time I stop walking she crashes into my butt. (My butt is also boring.) As I type this, she slouches (in a very bored looking posture) on my arm, and says the word “boring” over and over and helpfully presses random buttons on my keyboard with a bored index finger. She asks me (in a bored voice) what the “Ctrl” button does. q Yes, she just pressed q.
For the record, there are many days when our TV is hardly watched. Lots of afternoons go by without the power button being pressed, and Legos are built, and Barbies are played with, and all is fine. But when the TV is forcibly taken away by a mean ‘ol mommy, suddenly the world cannot possibly continue to turn and life ceases to exist.
7 hours and 46 minutes until bedtime. Not that I’m counting or anything.
Next time I will really think twice before disciplining my children.
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It’s so not fair that we’re punished when they are punished. Don’t get me wrong, I still ground my kids but it totally sucks to have to listen to the whine at me!
Comment by Sam — January 16, 2008 @ 4:57 pm
It’s true. Sometimes punishment is harder on the parents.
Comment by Leslie — January 16, 2008 @ 7:46 pm