CPS has been notified

Shit I'm In Trouble For This WeekSmall Orange Child is complaining about being told what to do.SuperParent says: There are rules everywhere. School has rules, our house has rules. Everyone has to follow rules. Well, except for Cowboy.Note: This is Cowboy.Orange Child yelling about how if Cowboy doesn't have rules, she should be able to do whatever she wants, too, blah blah blah. Are you still listening? 'Cause I tuned out srsly five minutes ago.Parent of the Year: Yeah, no. You're not Cowboy.I shall accept my Parenting Trophy between 8 am and 7 pm on standard business days.

p.s., Second Verse Same As The FirstSimone the Cat wants attention. I drop everything to pet her and announce to everyone/no one, Simone gets what Simone wants.Orange Child, yelling about her various unfulfilled requests for lego sets, life is unfair, etc.Me: Yeah but no. You're not Simone.Game Set Match, little girl.

Hello, you've reached Cat Protective Services. Sorry no, we don't care.

Tree wrote:Funny that this thread was bumped as I was JUST thinking about it and thinking about this: In my seventeen-plus years as a parent, fourteen-and-a-half as a parent of two (and now with an addition four younger children), I've found that the biggest balancing act in parenting is when a child acts up and their sibling tells you about the behavior, you have to simultaneously do something about the misbehaving child's behavior while letting the tattling child know that nobody likes a fuckin' rat.A ways back...My dad's ex-wife was babysitting her niece's son. His mom got married after he was born(not to his dad). Four or five years later, they had a son.Once the younger kid got to be about two, the older boy made telling me how much his younger brother gets on his nerves a regular thing. We even had a serious "Sit Down" about the ups and downs of being an older brother while you are growing up.I just didn't have the heart to break that he was going to be regularly dealing with a remorseless rat to him.

going to try this right now. might get confusing as cat and child share name.

Funny that this thread was bumped as I was JUST thinking about it and thinking about this: In my seventeen-plus years as a parent, fourteen-and-a-half as a parent of two (and now with an addition four younger children), I've found that the biggest balancing act in parenting is when a child acts up and their sibling tells you about the behavior, you have to simultaneously do something about the misbehaving child's behavior while letting the tattling child know that nobody likes a fuckin' rat.

Tommy wrote:bumble wrote:SuperParent says: There are rules everywhere. School has rules, our house has rules. Everyone has to follow rules. Well, except for Cowboy.See, this is where you messed up. Even Cowboy has a rule to follow. His is to pee in the catbox. If Cowboy can't get out of rules, no one can.Good plan but ummm yeah soI can't recommend either the little girl's or Cowboy's hygienic habits.

Advanced dad lessons from a pro:M is the daughter of Charlie. M is sort of on walkabout, traveling the country and her dog, who is not traveling with her, just died. Charlie handling it just right.

Yeah that is hard. Also on top of it, we have a 1.5yo who is just at that stage where she can start to inflict bodily harm but has zero empathy so she laughs about it. The 6.5yo is not taking too kindly to "she's just a baby, she hasn't learned not to do that yet." Especially because he's too damn smart and replies with "she's not a baby, she's a toddler!" That is like a situation where everyone is at fault and I just sigh and walk away.