My teenage daughter always waits until the end of my workday when I am preparing to maneuver traffic and get home to run someone somewhere to ambush me with some trivial request. ( I know she thinks it is life or death!).
This Friday she decides to ask me if she can go with a friend to a High School basketball game at 7:30. I'm trying to get home and I am running through all the reasons why it just isn't practical with all the things I have to do to get her there and the boys having to get to karate. So I just tell her I will talk to her later. Well I get home and she is loading the dishwasher. As usual the boys aren't ready for Karate practice but Shemar is ironing so were not too far off. I walk into the kitchen and say something to her about the timing of her asking me to go. I never really said no, but that's what I meant.
We drop the boys off for practice and she asks why am I parking. I'm waiting outside this time and not going in. She says why can't I take her to meet with her friend. I tell her I never said yes and that she can't go. A few seconds of silence pass then all of a sudden she is banging on the windows, kicking the seats, eventually even stomping on the ceiling. She asks why I won't do something she wants even though I don't want to. She is going to track and she doesn't want to. That's not for me!!! I don't engage her and let her have this tantrum. It takes 42 minutes to pass. Then she asks me for 50 cent for the vending machine, like nothing ever happened.
WTF!!!! But I didn't kill her. I didn't give her any money either. I just can't imagine her asking for more privileges. How could she think that throwing a tantrum like a 3 -yr old would get them for her. Then she asked to go to the movies today. Either she is very confused or maybe I am. But you don't get rewarded for that type of behavior at any age.
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lol! I would have kicked the child in the neck, just joking. (i would try!)
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