another adventure in parenting...

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Well this morning I woke up to my daughter running around the living room at 6am. She usually doesn't get up until 730-8a so this was unusual for her. She turns on the TV and all I hear is Barney. Ugh. So I wake up. She's changed herself already which is good, I was happy about that. So for the next hour she watched tv. I woke her brother up at 7:30a to get him up and ready for school. He gets up, and hes complaining about having to go to Respite Care (he goes every other weekend, to give him a break from the house and to give us a break from him, because of his many deficits) and having to pack his bag. I find his clothes - his clean JUST cleaned clothes, and he starts complaining because he says some of them aren't dried. Whatever. So he finally picks clothes and comes upstairs. I hand him his medication (he takes some for ADHD and his ODCD) and he complains I don't give him a drink. Well I ask him to grab one and he starts swearing. At this point I had put my daughter into the bathtub, because she had an accident last night and needed to wash. He's complaining because he wanted to go into thwe shower (it is now almost 8 and he starts school at 830a) ... he then sits on my computer chair and all he's doing is complaining. Then he realises the bag he had just put all of his clothes into, reeked like cat pee. He gets mad, tosses all of his clothes out, and tosses the backpack down the stairs. At this time I suggest to him to put his clothes into plastic bags, as this was the only thing I had to put his stuff into. He doesn't want that, he wants a NEW backpack. I tried to explain to him that I don't have any extra money right now to buy him a new bag, and he proceeds to call me a cheapskate, and a liar etc. I explain to him again that he knows it will bew a couple more weeks before I get his child tax, and he has to wait. He then says im so cheap I can't buy him a new bag. So I give up talking to him, and I get my daughter ready to go. She then starts tossing a fit because she wants to watch TV instead of go to daycare. I then explain that SHE needs to get dressed, so she does. Then my son decides at 5 mins before he's supposed to walk out the door, that he wants to change his clothes and spike his hair. So he's in the bathroom for20 mins, making himself late for school. We finally leave, and my daughter goes to run away from us (four year old). I stop, and I tell her if she4 doesn't come back that I will not leave. She comes back. On the way to daycare my daughter decides she wants to run off to see a friend, and not hold my hand. I stop, and she pitches a huge fit right then and there - infront of her friend. We finally get her to daycare, and I walk home/