Today I picked jas 10 up from school, there is a 30 second walk to the sweet shop and in that walk I told her I wasn't buying her sweets today, "awww why" she asked with a sulky look on her face. I told her as we walked past the shop that it is not healthy if I buy her sweets all the time and over the past few weeks that is what has been happening plus I also explained that even when she gets home she then continues to have a yogurt or something else and its not good. This was my manly way of saying your getting a bit podgy and your mum is blaming me.
Anyway she sulked all the way home..... and then some more when we was sat in living room as she was playing the nintendo wi, I sat there thinking to myself I am having to sit there and watch you play this and if that isn't bad enough you are still sulking and pulling faces whenever our eyes meet. she is 10 and I am the boss I thought, but I just couldn't be bothered. Then 2 minutes later the showdown, she looked at me and I smiled back at her nice like a dad looks at his child with love and warmth, the daggers glared back at me. I had enough " listen" i said "if you are just gonna sit there been a miserable sod then you can go upstairs, its bad enough I have to sit here and watch you play this rubbish and if you are just gonna pull faces at me then no its not happening anymore" i gave in a firm tone "and your mum can start collecting you from school in future because if this is what you get like then i am not gonna end my day early and go out of my way to pick you up everyday if this is what we are gonna have" I added.
Well here comes the waterworks and the storming off upstairs good i thought to myself, she will have to learn. She likes me to pick her up because if her mum does she has to stay 20 minutes later and if i pick her up she gets to play with her friends quicker....... and sweets.
Then the 12 year old poppy walks in just as I turn off the wi and hope to sit in peace. Iphone in hand as per usual "alright? wheres jasmine?" she asks "Upstairs sulking" I said "oh " she said. She wasn't arsed about why, cos she just got a text in the time she asked to the time i answered so she wasn't interested anymore, happens a lot. Anyway she sits down and starts watching youtube on her phone, playing a justin beiber song. I ask her to turn it off and she tuts and walks off upstairs. shouting on her way that "i am always moaning that she spends to long upstairs in her room but when she gets home I send her upstairs"....... "I didn't send you upstairs I asked her to turn the music off and there is a big difference" I replied
I sat there just thinking in the space of 30 minutes I have gone from nice and happy, things are going great to having 2 kids screaming at me or crying and the missus isn't even back yet.
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