I have had this damn twitch for two weeks now and it's driving me nuts. If I cough or sneeze it goes into over-drive. Normally it doesn't bother me unless I am getting ready to go and get the kids. YES---I am back to babysitting :-( Anyway I am so tired of this thing twitching that I looked up the cause on the internet! *word to the wise* never self diagnose. Anyway I looked it up and it says that it can be caused by stress. Now there's a revelation...lmao Now here's the funny part..."In most cases, eyelid twitch goes away on its own with rest or removal of irritating factors." I would say that the "irritating factors" would be none other than my grandkids. I was trying to think of some way to remove them. LOL Quite a few options came to mind. None that didn't involve going to jail for though.
The youngest is a genius. LOL Go figure! But here's the problem...no discipline. None that's consistent anyway. He throws fits that normally would be a 2 year olds job. On the floor kicking and screaming. I ignore that. But the part I can't ignore is the constant repeating. Here's an example: He will ask at 7:30 on a school night if he can watch a movie when he goes to bed at 8. I say NO. He then says "Why can't I watch a movie." immediately after I say no. He knows why he can't but that doesn't stop him. So stupid me explains why. That should have given any 8 year old genius the answer right? WRONG....or maybe right! But that doesn't stop this kid from saying "Why can't I watch a movie" over 100 times. And you might think OMG she's exaggerating right there. NO I'm not. It's probably more but my brain is working on another level. "How can I shut this kid up?" So I might have missed a few of the "Why can't I watch a movie?" comments coupled with the whiniest voice you ever heard. And of course on the floor kicking his feet.
Now this is what happens to me. I can feel the blood pressure rising so I try to shut off the whining which is almost impossible because that kid is right in front of me. I don't look at him because if I do I am going to lose my mind. So what does he do! OMG He starts screaming it. And if you ask him why he does that....the answer makes me want to slap my son silly....he says because I want you to say yes. My son gives in after the first few why's and then the kid learns that if he does that he gets his way...well not on my watch. I am very consistent...if I say NO it actually means NO, end of story. Or it should be. But not with the 8 year old.
When all this began way back in 2009, I ended up taking Welbutrin. I moved out of that house and away from those kids and I got off the Welbutrin. Stupid me agreed to watch the kids while my son goes to work 120 miles away. He comes home on the weekends and on thursday. Otherwise me and the oldest grandchild watches them. I usually pick them up at 1pm and keep them till 5pm when I take them back home. I stay there until 7 or 7:30 then I come home...that's summer hours. School hours is I go up there at 7am and take them to school. then I come back at 7pm and make sure they go to bed on time. I leave at 8:30.
Granted the youngest isn't bad all the time but when he is...it makes you forget anything good about him.
I have just turned in my second book at the publishers and I am going to write another one and turn that one in. But let me tell you...as soon as I start making money off these books I am moving to Ohio. There is no way I am going to spend the last of my life in this kind of situation. Pretty soon I will have all kinds of tics and twitches...then what?
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