Do you ever look at your child and wonder: Who are u?
Well I had that experience yesterday. It started off in the morning when I asked sonny boy to go upstairs to his room to get his belt. That took approx. 10 minutes. I then asked him to put his sweater on over his uniform. He stated that he wasn't wearing it today. But I thought otherwise.
When it was time to walk out the door, I got no hug and no kiss goodbye. I let it go.
Later when sonny boy returned home from school I thought the mood had passed. Boy was I wrong. Early afternoon was good. Dinner was good but a little too quiet for me. I tried conversating but it was met with some resistance.
After homework was all completed and a little play time was had. And previously I asked what time he wanted to study his vocab. He said 7:30. So when the time rolled around to about 7:50 I asked if he was ready to study his vocab. He said no I need a little more time. I so no, time has been had.
So he comes downstairs and claimed to have studied the words. Well when I test him, he missed over half of the words. I said, ok we are done. He then says: aren't you going to help me. I respond: you studied right.
Anyway I began to help him with the words by having him verbally spell them and write them on a wipe board. He complains that it is too much and continues to gripe.
I am starting to get upset and then I think to myself that this is crazy. I am trying to help him and he is making this difficult. At that moment I look at him and realize that I don't know this person. And, I also thought that before I let this unknown person get under my skin, I am going to pray for him. Well that is just what I did. I rebuked the devil and I prayed for Gods' covering on him .
Sonny boy thought that I was crazy but it got us through that study session and he was able to spell all of the words. Then, this morning I retested him and he only missed one. I say that he is ready for his test today. Hooray.
I am so glad that we were able to get through yesterday. And I thought about how moody we all are at times of the day. I really gave some thought to why sonny boy may have been so moody but I couldn't reason that. I did ask him if anything happened yesterday that he wanted to talk about. But that was met with a big no. I even thought about depression and counseling. I just don't want the little attitude to turn into a big problem in years to come.
I am going to keep an eye on this moods so I can perhaps talk to his Dr. about it. Oh well.
