We had a few things to do which brought us out and about in the local towns. He turned heads wherever we went (the local tip, supermarket and council office) where the looks ranged from mild amusement to looks at me as if I were a moron to let him wear it - even a few enquiries as to what it was ?!?!? Pretty self explanatory I thought. The bright light beaming at them being a giveaway methinks...
We then had to take LL to his dance class and go shopping in Tesco's. By then CC had developed his own technique of clicking down the lamp to reach the on/off switch so was showing it off to anyone who would grant him an audience.
Anywho's he's seriously chuffed with himself and off to read under the covers!
On another note I was saddened and very angry to find that BB had been back to his old tricks of helping himself to goodies from the pantry. I am at my wits end as to how to get him to stop, short of putting a lock on the door. After each subsequent episode He has had snack taken away for a week, his Lego boxed up and hidden for over two weeks, banned from attending his beloved beavers and nothing has worked. He just can't help himself, even though I've told him that if he asks he would probably get. It's not the food that is the problem anymore, it is simply the trust and doing what he is told issue.
Today I laid it on thick as the calm softly softly approach hasn't worked. I very angrily told him that what he had done was wrong and naughty, he didn't think to apologise, so I pointed this out to him. Once he'd said sorry, I asked him to explain what he was sorry for and explain what he'd done wrong. I then told home that I was worried that if he was doing this now and couldn't tell the difference between right and wrong then I was scared that when he was older he might do something worse that was naughty and then he might get taken away and I wouldn't get to see him.
Really frustratingly after all of this his only response was 'can I make a salt dough sculpture' and when I said there was no way he flipped his lid. Said it was to cheer him up!!! Completely didn't get the point! I stormed out of his room and told him that he was a spoilt brat and that it wasn't all about cheering him up and what was going to cheer up his mummy after finding out that she had a naughty son?
After I calmed down I went back and explained that it was my job to teach him right from wrong and that I needed to know I was teaching him right as I heard last week about a local boy who's just been caught burgling and he's been taken away from his parents. (True story - but he is 18, a fact which I omitted) and I didn't want that to be him when he's older.
Annoyingly he's otherwise a great kid.
I really hope that something I said to him resonates. What I do fear is that he is just like his Dad because if that's the case,(from what I've been told) I doubt that any of it will...
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