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Tweak says, "Who let the nutjob out?"

Yume Kasai (daily_exodus) wrote,
@ 2008-09-15 15:00:00

Current mood:	amused
Current music:	Washer and dryer...

i walk a thousand nights to change the world
So, todays mostly been uneventful. Woke myself up at 10:30 A-fucking-M, and dragged myself over to Keaton's to drag Clayton out of bed. Then we both laid down as soon as we got back to my house, watched Gilmore Girls, and passed out, before my mom woke us up, sending me off to pick Christian up, since she and my dad were going to Ann Arbor to get my dads chemo... So I pick Christian up and bring him home, and my parents are leaving and tell me he hasn't ate at all today and to try and get him to eat or drink something. I walk in the house and Jayden's in his high chair munching away on some lunchables, and Clayton's washing dishes, which he told me he was going to do them so that I could get the credit, but my dad ended up walking in on him doing it. >D;;;; But it still made me extremely happy either way.

Of course, Christian wouldn't eat though... But Clayton actually got Christian to do something I haven't seen (personally) anyone else do. Be quiet. He told Christian to sit on the couch and drink his milk, and after that he could get up and play. Christian kept messing around, so then Clayton took the toys and put them back in the room. What amazed me about all of this, was that Christian just sat there, quiet, the entire time. Didn't scream, cry, fuss, or throw a tantrum, just sat there, and ended up falling asleep. I even tried asking him if he wanted hot cereal instead of milk, but he said he wanted milk... and just... never drank. :/ *sigh* The kids a mystery.

So now the kids are just running about quietly entertaining themselves, Claytons lazing on the couch, and I've got a SPLIT moment to do some laundry and respond to some RPs (though no ones posted anything too interesting at the moment). I've got class at 6:00 though, so I need to start getting ready-ish for that... and Kerri STILL isn't home.

Oh, which reminds me. My phones fucking... broken. Don't know HOW. Its just fucked up. A handfull of the buttons (mostly vital buttons like the green send button, the volume, the down and right directional buttons, the right-sided confirm button, and the voice command button, and a few numbers) won't work. NO FUCKING CLUE. Its pissing me off a TON though because I have some really nice pictures on there, notably one UBER SEXY pic of Clayton that I have as my background at the moment. ; ~ ; I will cry a great torrential flood of tears if the phone continues to go downhill... And I KNEW I should have been sending those pictures to my computer... and just, kept fucking putting it off like an idiot. - _ -;;

Ah vell. Cest le vi.

HAHAH, Clayton just called me upstairs. Kerri brought Dominic over.

Joy;.

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	kyoki 2008-09-16 11:07 am UTC (link)
	That is awesome how Clay-Clay got him to listen. Does he not listen to the rest of you very often or something? Who is Dominic? I forgot.... He's not the one who is the kids' dad, right? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	daily_exodus 2008-09-16 01:53 pm UTC (link)
	Well, you know, usually he screams in defiance and shit, its really quite annoying, and people give in really easy to shut him up. Yeah, Dominic isn't the dad, he's the pothead. Rather than Sherrod, who is the alchoholic. >D;;;;; (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

kyoki
2008-09-16 02:06 pm UTC (link)

You shouldn't give in to him so easily. If you are firm with him he will eventually listen all the time. It's hard to do at first, but once he starts to understand that things can't always go his way, it'll be easier. I did that with my siblings when they were younger, and it worked all right. ^.^;;; I'm sorry I'm going on about that, I'll be quiet now.

Ah... I see...

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	daily_exodus 2008-09-16 07:36 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, well, its not just me though. I've TRIED to be firm with him in the past, but it seems like everyone eventually gives in. :/ Its kind of a crappy situation. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

kyoki
2008-09-16 07:52 pm UTC (link)

You should keep trying until it works. You can't give up, especially when it comes to trying to get kids to listen. Be the rebel who saves the day! The same thing happened to my family with Tara. Everyone gave in to her and always gave her what she wanted, hell so did I for awhile. But then I noticed what a little brat she was becoming, so I stood my ground and was firm with her. The others tried too, but kept giving in, but I didn't. Eventually she started to listen and the others realized that it was working and did it too. Now she listens and complies a hell of a lot better. She still has her moments, but everyone does. xD

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daily_exodus
2008-09-16 08:24 pm UTC (link)

Heheh, yeah. Well. You should hear the shit Kerri gives me if I DO try to be firm with her kids. I remember once I was scolding Christian and she ACTUALLY had the audacity to tell me that she was "trying not to yell at him anymore as a way of discipline" or some bull like that. Can you guess how long THAT lasted? Probably that day. And that was probably it.

But anyway. I haven't been around to do much anyway. And I hardly do any of the actual "caretaking"... well, it looks like I might be doing a little more now. But yeah. I try to be firm, and since I'm the "cool aunt", he usually seems to listen a little better. But the thing you have to realize is... he will scream, and scream, and NOT STOP. I kid you not. SCREAM until he doesn't remember what he was even screaming ABOUT. So thats not really a lesson learned. Eh.

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kyoki
2008-09-17 10:48 am UTC (link)

Wow... yea... not yelling at him is a perfect way of discipling him. Let me tell you, I so should have tried that one. >.<

Are you going to do more since you are more at home now? Have you guys tried to ignore him when he screams? I know Morgan had a little bit of a screaming fit at times when she was younger and someone told her to do something she didn't want to do. So we just ignored her until she couldn't scream any more and then we would tell her to do whatever it was that started to the screaming, and she would do it since she was too tired of fighting and crying. ^.^

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	kyoki 2008-09-17 10:49 am UTC (link)
	I forgot to put this one in the last comment... But have you guys like ever tried to send him to a room by himself for like... a time out or something like that? Those tend to help too. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	daily_exodus 2008-09-17 11:36 am UTC (link)
	Sending him to the room by himself doesn't ever work out well since all of his toys are in there. We used to put him in a corner, and then he'd make himself puke so we'd have to clean him up and move him. -___- (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kyoki 2008-09-17 01:13 pm UTC (link)
	You're kidding... right? I'm sorry to say this, but I hope I never have a kid like that. Because if I did, then they would get punished a lot. I am one of those people who will not tolerate that kinds of stuff. ^_^;;; If I ever have a kid... I'll probably end up being the strict parent, and that saddens me... T_T (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	daily_exodus 2008-09-18 10:36 am UTC (link)
	Heheheh, yeah. I like to think I'd be somewhere in the middle, but I dunno. Clayton seems like he'd be the strict parent, and I feel like I'd need to balance that out. ^ ^; (Reply to this) (Parent)