My Beautiful Boy

I am really losing it with Corey this week, I am just not coping with him at all. The language is really getting to me, I wont even repeat what he called me yesterday.  The thing is that he has called his brother this awful word a few times but it wasn’t until he called me it that it really upset me and I realised just how much it must upset his brothers too when he says it to them.

His anger is just getting out of control, but I just don’t know what to do.  Sometimes I manage to stay calm and talk him around and other times I just lose it with him.  Having it happen constantly just really gets to you and it is so hard to stay calm all the time.  There is absolutely nothing that we can ask or tell Corey to do without him getting angry about it. Read the rest of this entry »

I’m just feeling so down at the moment as I’m starting to feel like everyone hates us.  I think all my friends and their kids have just about had enough of Corey’s behavior.  I want to make excuses for him and tell them that it’s not his fault and he can’t help the way he behaves, but then I try to think about how I’d feel in their position, I probably wouldn’t like his behavior either.

I have one friend who has 3 kids the same age as my 3 and they are all quite good friends.  Her oldest is having a birthday in a couple of weeks and she keeps going on about how her son doesn’t really want to invite Ben because Ben doesn’t get on well with Corey.  That really annoyed me, they are supposed to be friends and she is supposed to be my friend and yet she thinks it’s quite funny that her son doesn’t want to invite Ben.  The fact that Ben doesn’t get on well with Corey has got nothing to do with their friendship or his birthday party. Read the rest of this entry »

I know all siblings fight - well most of them probably do and I know that is normal.  But my boys just don’t stop!  Lachlan doesn’t fight much, he’s pretty good.  He’s very laid back and goes with the flow and he doesn’t go out of his way to cause trouble at all.

But the oldest two, they absolutely hate each other.

I have no idea why and I have no idea what to do to stop them constantly fighting.  It is getting to the stage where even their friends are talking about how bad they are to each other and they wonder why they can’t try and get on together a bit better. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s headache Wednesday!

I have no idea why but there is starting to get a bit of a pattern.  It is often a Wednesday when Corey is ’sick’.  Today it is a headache.  I spoke with his teacher this morning and there isn’t really anything that we can think of that happens at school on a Wednesday that he might be scared off.

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Poor Corey!  You know he and I are very much alike and that can be a real problem when we get into an argument as it doesn’t matter how stupid or petty the argument is, we both just want the last word.

Last night he was being really awful.  He wanted to play pool when it was time for bed and I was telling him that its time for bed and to go and brush his teeth.  Then he just told me ‘no, I’m going to have another game of pool’.  Of course that just rubbed me up the wrong way completely - I mean, I’m his mother and I’m telling him to go and brush his teeth.  I’m not asking him if he wants to go and brush his teeth, I am telling him to go and do it. Read the rest of this entry »

A couple of weeks ago Corey saw a jacket at the shop that he decided he ‘had’ to have.  Finances are a bit tight so we said no we can’t really afford it right now.  He wasn’t happy at all and days later was still going on and on and on about this jacket.  It got even worse when his older brother Ben started the soccer season and we had to buy new soccer boots and socks, shin pads etc for him.

“Why does he get everything”

“He gets everything and I get nothing”

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