Children

Last night was by far probably one of the worst fits my son has ever thrown. It all started out well enough. He changed into his PJ’s, went potty and picked out a book for me to read. After reading the book I turned his night light on and he started screaming at me to turn it off. I thought that was odd considering he’s use to having some light in his room. It continued to get worse. I turned off the night light then he started screaming because it was dark. Then he screamed about his stories on his stereo, he wanted music instead and when dad put music on he screamed about not liking the music choice. When we turned it off he continued to scream that he wanted music. When we told him that he could have the music that was in his stereo or nothing he chose nothing but screamed when he didn’t get music. I’m breaking by this point. He also screamed that he needed to go to the bathroom 3 times after he had already gone. Are you ready to scream yet? By this point I think I actually spanked him 3 times to get him to stop his fit…this spanking was a big deal because he has never been spanked before. I thought it would work but it didn’t. I decided that I would shut the door and let him scream. It drove me nuts and I was feeling guilty for spanking him so I went in and tried the calm approach. I let him get in my lap and I was rocking him and talking to him very quietly and trying to get him to calm his gasping crying. I finally thought I got him to calm down and laid him back in his bed and left shutting the door behind me just to have him start screaming about his legs hurting him(growing pains). Mind you I had already medicated my son for his growing pains because it is a frequent thing with him. My husband and I were probably on the verge of insanity when I decided that I would just let him get up and we would go to bed and let him deal on his own. My husband didn’t like that idea. I then told my son that if he didn’t stop his screaming I was going to make him sleep in the garage because he was keeping everyone in the house awake. Believe it or not that is the only thing that worked. My son doesn’t like the garage, especially at night. I’m sure the thought of being put in the garage terrified him but it shut him up. Thankfully, he didn’t call our bluff…

Oh the joys of parenthood.



This entry was posted on Monday, March 15th, 2004 at 4:20 pm. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

3 Responses to “Children”

  1. Sean Says:
    March 15th, 2004 at 5:08 pm


    Yikes!

    And you should see what happens when you have 2 near that age to play off of each other.

    But at least I don’t have to deal with a teenage girl! ;)


  2. Donna Says:
    June 29th, 2004 at 9:01 pm


    Dear Kimberley Ifound your web site from looking up super cuts web sites.I am new to computers and I havn’t got this whole talking like this down .Don’t do chat rooms but you have brought up a lot of differen’t topics so Iam finding out .So If I wonder off onto a nother subject forgive me.You mentioned your children being small what Iwoudn’t give for my kids to be small again .Love the tantrums the wondering off because they soon will be old enough to wonder off permantly. My daughter is also Kimberley also and 7-3- in a matter of days be 18 I wish I could go back in time.My son is just turned 16 . I raised them alone from birth with my son I now my daughter is talking about colledge and she deserves to go but Im thinking lost without you I wish you would throw tantrums let me do diapers again enjoy it because time does go by fast.My son is as we speak trying to read this and I wouldnt let him see he would worry more than he does now but I will always think of the time he wanted to know what mommy was saying .Lock them memories up now remember them fondly by the way now my daughter wants in and said mom are you looking up my birthday present. The joys of parenthood and wouldnt trade any of them .


  3. Kim Says:
    June 30th, 2004 at 9:07 am


    Thanks for the encouragement Donna! I look back at that night now and I can laugh about it. That is the good thing about writing down random thoughts…you can look back after a long time and enjoy the memories. I’m really enjoying my sons enthusiasm and curiosity for things and life. I hope he never loses his sense of wonder.