What are you supposed to do with them again? I've seemed to have lost my lemonade recipe, I guess.
Isaiah seems to be getting better at times. But just today he was invited to a friend's house, a very good friend that he has visited many times before in the "I can't get away from mom fast enough" fashion and he is currently a puddle of anxious tears in his room because he "just can't do it."
Seriously? You can't go 3 miles away to your good friends house (who loves you and encourages you) and eat ice cream and have a water/nerf gun fight for a few hours and then return home? This is just wrong. And today I'm having very little patience in dealing with it. I'm pretty much at the "just shake the boy by the shoulders and make him snap out of it" stage.
And this event came after a full morning of just trying to get him to see how negative and defeatist he is with every attitude toward work and attempting new things. Hearing "I can't, I need help, I give up and you won't help me" come from his pouty mouth is all wearing very, very thin. I totally spent over two hours in what feels like hand to hand combat, finally getting him to see a glimpse of the proper perspective and then the friend's invite becomes known and he quickly melts into a puddle of tears again. And all I want to do is scream.
How do you make lemonade out of this mess? I'm trying and I have rather good and well-tested strategies, but I am still failing for now. And yes, I realize that I'm probably growing within him fruit that will produce later... but I'm just tired of lemons.
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Oh honey, I feel for you. I haven't got one his age, but the feelings you're describing of wanting to just shake some sense into them and being at wit's end are very familiar. I'll pray now for him to find a way to cope with these new feelings he has and for you to find amazing patience, and maybe a time for a Sonic run by yourself, too. :o) Hugs!
BTW--I'll drop you a note, but I was thinking of coming over that way next week, maybe for a quick lunch date. Would that only exacerbate things? We'll chat...
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