Why is it that Daddy’s stuff is off limits, but mine seems to be fair game for the kids in this house? Briyana will walk out of her room with my clothes on. I come in the living room to find them scribbling on the dry-erase board with the markers I’ve told them not to touch without permission. I’ll turn around to find one of them with their lips on my drinking straw. My books go missing from the bookshelf only to later be located in their rooms, acting as “play” school books for their imaginary games.
These may not seem like huge issues but for me, it goes right along with issues of respect for the property of others and it IS a big deal for me. The little things start to escalate into larger issues down the line so I feel that it’s always necessary to tackle the small things to keep yourself from dealing with bigger headaches down the line. I’ve gotten to where I actually lock my room so that no one can get to my things but I don’t feel that this is a resolution to the problem itself and I shouldn’t have to lock my things away to keep little hands from snatching them.
So, I revisit my initial question — why is it that only my things are subject to the laws of community property? I tell the kids to stay out of my bedroom yet lo and behold I catch Briyana in there at least twice a day. Then tonight, she whines and complains and asks me to tell the other kids to stay out of her room! I reminded her that one always gets what one gives and that I would be happy to tell her brother and sisters to stay out of her room — as soon as she learns to stay out of mine. Ohhhhh, payback’s a mother, eh? ;)
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LOL oh girl I hear you on this one. I know its an entire different level, I lived in townhouse apartments once and the back spaces were not fenced off. I hated when other people would let their kids play on my kids things with out permission, my kids knew better then to onto other peoples back porch and do this. ugh I hated it. And worse if they tried to take stuff home with them or if something were to happen its you who gets them blame.. sorry guess I just changed your subject a tad. But it sounds like its your girls more then your boys? am I correct? Its that way here also.
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“Ohhhhh, payback’s a mother, eh? ;)”
A mother?
A mother…. WHAT?
You KNOW what. We ALL know what.
This is what’s known as a “minced oath”. That’s when we take an obscenity (like this one) or profanity and chop it up a bit to make it “acceptable”.
But it’s not. It’s still the same thing coming from our heart. Camoflage doesn’t change what it is.
“Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good!”
Is “motherBLANK” a good thing? Or corrupt thing?
Um, no actually it was a play on words because in this case, payback really WAS a “mother” because I was the one paying her back. Seriously… you took it to a completely different level. Perhaps YOU would have meant *that* but that is most definitely not what I said nor what I inferred. It was to be taken literally as MOTHER. Period.