Jan. 5

OK right now it is past 9pm and I am listing to my youngest son bitch about how many songs and videos we have downloaded on I-tunes.  Guess what I don't care. Now he is signing a Maroon 5 song like we are not listening to him.  I am really trying not to listen to him.

Can't believe that the first week of January and the new year is almost complete.  So much has been done this week in getting ready Jordan becoming an adult.  The next step is for him to register with the selective service, as much as I don't want him too. I also know the law how it is important to do this.  Sometimes it sucks when you have to tell your child that they can not do something.  But as a mom I have gotten good at saying NO to my children.

I think that NO is the first words we learn as parents and it the first word we teach our kids.  It's funny because we talk about how we want to give our kids everything. Yet when it comes right down to it we end up teaching our children boundaries.  The worst is the first time as a parent you hear "I HATE YOU" our of the mouth of the cute little face that you thought would never hurt you.  Yet those words hurt so much.  I can say it does not get better as they get older. 

When I heard the words out my almost 18 year old it cut, he was mad and having a melt down.  For those of you who don't know what a melt down is.  Let me explain, it is when he get a sensory overload from things going on around him. As he has gotten older the melt down are fewer, but when they happen everthing around him makes him upset and nothing can really help. We just have to wait until it passes which can be anywhere from a few minutes to a couple of hours. What hurts the most is the fact that our youngest son pays the price on activities he wants to do or go.