Natter 52: Playing with a full deck?
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
But some nights we go from laughing hugging mac to yelling mac 5-6 times from 6pm to 9pm.
Wow, that's a lot of testing behavior for his age. Typically toddlers do that because (a) they want the rules/boundaries reinforced and (b) they want to see if you really love them if they misbehave.
Though he's older, I wonder if on some emotional level Mac feels some anxiety that can't come out in other ways. Like, "Sure Mom loves me now, but if I'm a really bad kid she might take me back to the orphanage." Not that he could ever articulate that but it does sound like he's working something out. Something's driving the behavior.
I don't know if I would've drawn the line over the BK toy, but only because I would want to frame it as being about his behavior. Which is, that yelling and being rude is not okay. (Not, I'm taking you at your word and you gave up the toy.) I don't mean that as a commentary - just noting what my strategy would be. You can draw the line anywhere you think is necessary as long as you're consistent.
Personal note to Mac: Settle down!
Oy. Rough.
So. I've just had some drama. N, the g-grand-daughter from next door knocks, asks to use my phone. Calls cops.
Seems her grandfather has moved in. Alleged threats to her person and all that, though I don't know when. She's really upset. I had her sit with me in my apt until the cops arrived.
It's all kinds of fucked up and I don't know up from down. In the tangled words that poured out of her, it could be a lot of things. All I know is I had a very upset 17 year old at my door. I don't really know what's going on. But I'll answer that door and hand over that phone. No matter what.
At least the cops gave her a person/place to contact, and some advice. And hopefully, their decision to depart was sound.
I don't know. I really don't. I know these people. And there's more that I'll never know.
And now I think I'll have a really stiff drink.
Yeah.
It gets more complicated (for me) as I had asked the g-grandmother to watch Devi while I'm gone.
I trust her with that. I don't know how she'll react to my involvement in all this. Not so sure about the grandfather's presence. May punt and end up asking T and her dad.
Ggm and her sister are ...um...put it this way...I'm pretty certain from things they've said that they've been abused by the men in their families. But they wouldn't call it that. So.
THIS IS WHY I'M A HERMIT.
PEOPLE ARE MESSY.
ION, however, I wish I had thought of this: [link] Werner Herzog or Charles Barkley?
Oh dear... Now I off reading Barkley quotes. I blame the fact that he and I got to Phoenix at the same time, but I do like the idiot. And he never gave a boring interview.
Oy, sarameg. I hope the drink is helping ease the after effects of the drama.
In completely random news, I'm watching TDS, and his guest is Matt Groening(sp?), but somehow, in my mind, I was expecting the blond South Park guy, so when a man who has, say, fifteen years on him walked out, I was VERY concerned for his health. And then I realized, Simpsons. Not South Park. I think this means I'm past my bedtime. Hope I wasn't supposed to wf TDS guests.
It's got to be frustrating being intellectually five or six and linguistically, what, two?
And it seems like that might spiral if he got frustrated or was tired.
Well, courtesy of a drink and losing half my dinner due to post-nasal drip, I'm now quite a bit drunk.
People need to abide by my wishes for them to follow my rules. DAMNIT.
