Frustrating Parenting Moments…..

I can tell my nerves are not what they use to be when the first of my three kids started into teen years….. I feel I barely got by with a scrap of nerves with my stepson, then the almost there with my 17 year old daughter (she reallllllyy tried my patience and then some!!!) and somehow I had hope that last soon to be 15 year old would be a breeze after the first two!! HA!! I think I set myself up on that one!!

I can not understand why he insists on doing this ONE particular area we can’t seem to crunch, no matter what we do, or what we say. I am finding my patience is really lacking here!!! It was so much easier when they were younger, stick em time out, take away a few toys or games or maybe a swat on the behind if really needed!! Teens are a whole new ball game. Each very very different!!!!

But what get’s to me most is the tone of disrespect!! OH man if you wanna fire up mamma thats the thing to do!! I know a lot of that stems from being in the Navy. I have a zero tolerance for disrespect not only from my own but when I see and hear it from others.

It’s scary times and when I think of what things will be like for my kids when they grow up a little more, and have families of their own. I hear so many eldery saying today I would not want to raise a kid in todays age!! Man if it’s that bad now, what will the future hold???

All I know is I have three years left with my youngest and one year with my daughter left, as my stepson is 19 now, and they better think twice or guess again that “mom won’t throw me out” attitude cause guess again!!!!!!!!!