Dani’s birthday party is approaching fast, he’ll be 9 Friday and the party is Saturday. I already bought some plastic plates and napkins from WWE for the boys and Kitty for the girls. He invited around 30 kids (ouch!!) and I still don’t know how many are going to attend.
I can’t believe he’s almost nine, time just goes by so quickly.
He’s in a new phase already, he’s talking back to us, specially to dad causing a stress situation because he’s not the one in charge and we have to tell him that. Sometimes he accepts other times he just continues talking back.
I searched for some information about this behavior and I found this article at ParentCenter - Talking back: Why it happens and what to do about it that contains useful information regarding this.
I understand that he’s growing up and wants to have his opinion, and make is opinion the right one, but sometimes he abuses and talks in a nasty tone that we can’t allow. We’re not afraid that he’ll stop loving us therefore we can’t hesitate in these situations. Of course we should keep a natural tone of voice and this is one think I’m not good at. After trying to explain why things are not the way he wants, I usually speak loud and most of the times it works.
I know that lifting the tone of my voice shows my irritability, my nervous side but I can’t control myself. Each child is a case, some children just obey at the first warn, others don’t.
Of course we’ll get over this, I always keep on my mind that teen age will be worse and that worse issues will be coming in future years.
