Samuel informed me today that he was going to run away to the neighbors house (he's threatened this before). Tonight I was brave enough to ask "why?"
He said, "Because I don't like you." (gasp!)
In a split second, my 3 year old son broke my heart and I'm still recovering. Even though he wanted me (not Daddy) to read him stories for bedtime and then clasped his arms around my neck pleading with me to not leave his room.
As I write this I still have a lump in my throat! I'm such a softy! But I love that boy so much. He's been quite verbally and physically oppositional with me this week and it's been down right difficult in the discipline department. Lately, he's been very expressive about being mad. I think he's really trying to grab hold of those feelings, figure them out and own them. The problem is that he has a short fuse like his mama and he's been getting himself in a bit of trouble lately. I wonder if this is just a normal phase of development?
Whatever it may be, I hope we pass through it soon.
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Micaiah told me yesterday that he doesn't want to have a wife because he does not like me. (He still thinks that I'm going to be his wife.)
They do have the ability to break our hearts, don't they? Micaiah has been expressing that he's angry lately, so we're right there with you.
I think it's a normal stage of development, but I have no idea if it ends until they are adults! :)
it's happened to me too... i'm not a mom, and it broke my heart too. you gotta know though, that's its not YOU, it's what you're doing that he doesn't like... he's trying to figure out his feelings, like you said... but it's hard :(
hey... with the kind of day you had, why don't you just let him go? people who don't know me and my blunt sarcasm must really be wondering right now...
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