Oh Wright!

Oh Wright, where do I begin? He is quite a handful these days. So so so funny at times and a complete mess at others. He has been doing a lot of talking back and whining which I am hoping is either his age or fatigue and not faulty parenting :) We have been working a ton on review for school...tracing lines, mazes, letter recognition, fine motor, etc. He loves it and is learning so much. This week he could write every letter in his name, we just need to keep practicing the order they go in.

A few weeks ago, Wright was upset with us because we tried to make him go on the slide at the KC pool. He told me later that day that he did not like the slide because he got hurt on a slide once (this did not happen). Then he began to go into this elaborate story about how he has another family with a mom (Gina), a dad (Dado) and 5 brothers (3 that are really mean to him). He said he wanted to go back and live with his other family. So I played along for a while until I realized he was waiting at the door for Gina to come get him. I redirected his attention with a show and thought we had moved on. But, he has brought up his "other family" and "other mom" every few days since then, sometimes when he is mad at me and sometimes just to be funny. What an imagination!

He is also at the age where he is expressing his anger a lot more. Today in the car, he was so mad at me for not letting him have juice. He was crying for like 20 minutes telling me "I don't like you anymore.", "You are mean", "You are not being unkind" (loved this one) and "You're not nice". Then tonight when he was in timeout yet again, he was screaming "This is TERRIBLE!" over and over. It's awful that his behavior can be so bad but the things he says when he is angry kind of make me laugh. Is that bad?