Good
Started new job. I am being an Exec Assist again. This time with it's based in the city. I love the city. I love new stuff.
Getting home from work and my boys are waiting for me to go food shopping.
It take me 30minutes to get to work, not an hour.
Torby choosing me to read bedtime stories last night - he usually prefers Nw
Torby going to sleep with minimal fuss last night and then sleeping until just past 7am. I guess a day of running around in parks will do that.
Bad
Torby has always been a fussy eater. He hates trying new food. Tonight I waged a battle and it ended in tears (for us both)
It's the utter refusal and the histronics when asked to try anything perceived as new that makes me see red.
He's gone to bed without any real dinner inside him and quite distraught. I juust get to sit here and feel like the worst parent in the world.
Meh
Had a few flat days but I think I know why and I've decided that there is nothimg I can do about and I know how to avoid it in the future so there is no point in the meh. See, I'm just like a grown-up
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"Torby has always been a fussy eater. He hates trying new food. Tonight I waged a battle and it ended in tears (for us both)
It's the utter refusal and the histronics when asked to try anything perceived as new that makes me see red."
I see you a young son and raise you a 10 yr old step-daughter who comes over once every 2 weeks so you know there's no real chance to influence this.
It sucks doesn't it? The part where you feel like dragon lady because you've insisted that turkey is really like chicken, but she won't eat it, or that she has to have some vegetables during the week, but apparently lettuce on a hamburger is objectionable...
I feel, and I suspect you do too, that the refusal to eat food is somehow a rejection of my cooking and attempt to provide a thoughtful meal.
It's all for their own good, but the immediate reaction is excruciating.
*hugs*
(p.s. the word that I have to type in to prove I'm not a bot is 'noshme'- made me giggle)
I don't suppose it'd make you feel any better if I said it was a perfectly understandable evolutionary mechanism for getting young children to learn whats safe to eat and what isn't?
No, I didn't think so.
why is it that when we are 'good' parents and hold the line about the important stuff we end up feeling like the worst person in the world?
Hear ya babe.
SW
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