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Jan

How much should I take???

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As some of you may know I am a single mother of my little angel of two and a half years old.

I still ive with my parents and I dont know if that may be a cause of some of the problems I am experiencing with my son. I am trying my best to find a good job to be able to provide for him myself again, but it seems like no matter what I do I wont ever get respect from them.

Ever since my son was born everything I did became a very big issue for everyone at home. I am under alot of stress. Like for example when I need to go shower after a long day out jobhunting, they give me a certain time that I MUST be finished in. Or when i need to use the bathroom (nature calls) they refuse to look after my son for that ten of fifteen minutes and i have to take him with me. I feel that, that is not a very good  thing for my son. He is not going to be two forever and everytime he goes to the bathroom with me he wants to look at my private parts and no matter how i explain to him that boys dont look at girls private parts it doesnt help coz he has to go to bathroom with me.

Another problem that has been surfacing: I have always been the one to impliment the dicipline. And the method i was using is time outs and rewards for doing good. He has a schedule that i always try to stick to. When I worked I always asked them to stick to this or else he might be confused by the two sets of diciplining. Now i noticed lately that they dont use the time outs but instead give him hidings.... And also when i give him time outs they come and take him out of his naughty zone (which is a chair). He now ignores me completely when he does something wrong and needs a time out.

Also when I say no to something like having a sip of my wine he goes to my sister or father and askes them and they allow him to drink wine. I do not want him drinking alcohol at his age. My sister is his godmother but is it right for her to also teach my son to say bad words and then laugh about it and when i tell him that we do not ssay naughty words and that they are not nice he just ignores me more and more. 

He goes to them for comfort and to get his way. Am i being to strict on him that he does that? Or is it just a case of him getting confused by the two sets of rules that he has at the moment?

I honestly dont feel that leaving him in their care when i start working again would be the best thing for my son. I really really want to put him in a daycare centre to get the right care when I am not home.

What is a single, currently umemployed mother to do?

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mystikal
June 25th | mystikal
Re: How much should I take???

I think you need to get out of there. The hidings and teaching him nasty words may be what has set his behaviour trends. This is why I asked about the father as kids don't just learn this on their own, they copy behaviour. My next question was going to be, who does he stay with but I didn't want to ask as it seems we got off on the wrong foot (sorry about that I never intended to hurt your feelings). Grandparents shouldn't lay their hands on their grandchildren and hidings are a form of child abuse. You only know about the hidings but if they are hitting him hard enough that it is considered child abuse then my next question is what else are they doing to him that you don't know about? Kids exposed to such violence copy it. The longer you stay around your parents, his behaviour is not going to change. Like Arna said, even staying in a caravan park is better in the long run than staying where you are. You may have to move out, find a place, get the help that your son needs, while putting him in day care and seeing how it goes. It'll be better for you too as it seems you've been copping a bit of emotional abuse from your family too. I know how that feels as my family put me through a lot of crap too. xox



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Arna
January 2009 | Arna
Re: How much should I take???

You need to move out of there hun, even a caravan park is going to be better for you than having your parents undermind your parenting skills.

As for taking him to the toilet withh you, it will make for easier potty training and he will be more open to the idea that girls and boys have different bits.  Our girls have been dragged to the toilet since they were born just so they wouldn't scream the house down, and they have been more open to the idea of toilet training.  So, when you use the toilet, explain to him that you are doing a wee etc, so that he can make the connection between the toilet and weeing, and that big people use a toilet and not a nappy.



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