You are not alone
Today I was catching up with a dear friend and she was fussing about her kids, the entitlement they feel, and other mother rants. I laughed and said that is good to hear as I only remember her saying to her son, “I’m the luckiest mom in the world” something I now say to my son. She laughed.
I picked up Tin from school today and another mother had taken him to the park as I was supposed to be in yoga, which didn’t happen, and when I arrived I learned that Tin behaved poorly at school today and I would be receiving an email – I felt naturally guilty. I asked him what he did and he said he talked. Hmm, later he said he hit three kids. Earlier a friend had told me that one of her friends visited a psychic who said this month is tough, it’s going to be hard, for everyone. Good to know.
When we arrived home Tin claimed to be starving and then almost trashed the food I prepared for him, and then began wildly eating it, and at bedtime he cried as if someone was beating him, and then after pulling the curtain off the window not once, but twice, I flew off the handle a la my father. Interesting because I was reading someone else’s post about their father, and suddenly here I was channeling my father who passed 27 years ago, and it wasn’t his most flattering side, I do admit.
My earlier conversation had helped to remind me that we are not alone, there are people with far worse problems, there are parents just trying not to reincarnate their own parents’ worst behavior, there is also proof from a psychic that all of this is really out of our control.