OK
why is it so hard to sound those two out? why when you're 9 and 7 is is part of your determination and cellular balance to just negate that word from your entire vocabulary arsenal?
why must you be preprogrammed as a human baby, and perfect it through your small child years, to literally drive your parents into that abyss where they wonder if they will survive BECAUSE you can't just say it?
why is everything that you have in your body just asking you to buck the system of attempted parenting? i have good ideas. i do. why do you want to argue with everything?
why can't you just say OK? it's easy .. say it.
OK.
now try this, (a little test, let's say) i ask a question, or offer an unimaginable recommendation of oh, say, a healthier choice for that snack, and you respond with OK.
can't do it? i know ..... neither can they.
{sigh}
i am so tired. this is such a hard little phase we're in. remember, i mentioned it - a few days ago......
argue.
argue.
argue.
ack ack ack
i know that they are doing their job as kids. i know they aren't supposed to just agree, and be robotic little beings. i just don't want them to argue with the things that i say are happening. i still win, in the end. it's just a damn long way to go before the winning is over.
i've begun the little spin of "fight for the puck on the ice, fight to win a hockey game, fight for the starving animals in the world, and the injustices that you feel are so blatantly wrong (did i mention i am a wee bit tired?!) ..... but please don't fight with people - especially adults when they are your parents, or grandparents ..."
i am trying to make a point.
i am trying to keep the fight IN them, but not fight WITH them. get it?
just give me an OK, would ya?? :)
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I'm confused. And tired, so that might explain it.
Are they just not...agreeable? Or is it an all-out refusal to say "okay"?
LOL, I'm not sure which, but I can relate to the former, for sure!
But anyway, here's an 'OK' just for you?
Okay?
OK.
LOL! they are just being kids. agreeable sometimes, and arguing others. I was playing with the "okay" thing because they seemingly can't say "okay mom, I'll do that!"
LOL!
Karin, we have the same inability to put those two letters together in our house. Simply saying "ok" means defeat in their eyes, I think. At the age of 9 and 7, defeat is just unacceptable.
But once in a blue moon, they surprise me, and I have hope for world peace. :)
We seriously need to meet up one day! Our kids are almost exactly the same age;it would be a blast to compare notes and introduce the kiddos to each other.
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