Do you get frustrated with your children and you take a timeout?

So how is life for you now, do you do all those things you didn't when they were young? Like, I wanna go back to school full time, we're gonna build a bigger house that has everything we want in it, without regard to building in a good school discrict this time :), I wanna do a lot of traveling. Do you find it's easier to live as a couple with your spouse now and enjoy each other; if you have one that is.

Kids and their know-it-all ways, I have to admit that at 19 I was stupid as I could get and acted like it too, my mom however truly is crazy and we stopped talking a year ago after she called CPS on my sister. We all have to grow up sometime though. Unfortunately most of the time a lot of pain is inflicted before that happens.

I hear ya. I have a 19 year old girl that was born knowing it all. Now she is pregnant and lives 3 hours away. Her boyfriend got mad at us and says we "hand her everything". But yet I just got a phone call that they wanted our christmas tree if we weren't going to use it. I will set it a blaze before I "hand" it too her!!

I was a cool temper tantrum when I was a child

I've always walked away when I get really mad at my son, he has this attitude at 9 that drives me nuts sometimes.

OMG, I think from age 3 - 5 I did not take my son in public for anything, when i did he threw a fit every time. One time he did it in blockbuster because I said no to him having candy and he put himself on the ground screaming! I was SO mad! I picked him up and we left, I told him when we got in the car I was going home aunt april was going to keep him and I was coming back for MY movie and not his because of the way he acted, he begged all the way home to go back. I didn't and he didn't get his movie and he never did that again. Least not at blockbuster, lol. He did it one more time at Walmart. I devised a better plan after that :)

Wow, sounds like they've forgotten who's running the show in your house! Good luck to you!

That's always good, I had to do that a lot when my son was younger, now not so much because he'll go to his room when I tell him, when they're young even if they're in their room sometimes they're in there screamin and cryin, deliberately trying to get your attention, which defeats the purpose of putting them in there in the first place. This is why we only have ONE! LOL. That was hard enough, since making a decent man out of a boy is getting harder with each year, my one boy is the only one, and he's fine with that I think :)

My mom used to wish on me that I get tenfold of what I did to her. I'm in trouble if it comes true. LOL