Do What I Tell You
I am prefacing this one w/ a warning, what you are about to read is in no way related to or in response to a specific real life situation. It is a general feeling of mine that makes me want to scream from the rooftops of tall buildings because I am a total control freak who has trouble letting go. My husband has made me aware of the situation and I am working on it ….
Do not do a variation of what I tell you
Do not interpret what I tell you
Do not think about what I tell you
Do what I tell you
If, I tell you to hang my kid by his ankle out the car window on the highway doing 100 … I want to see on the evening news, cruisers following your car and be able to hear the public outcry from my living room!
1. If I tell you to feed him around 6 o’clock for dinner, when I call you to find out how dinner went at 6:39, guess what I don’t want to hear “He didn’t seem hungry so I haven’t fed him yet”
2. If I tell you not to let him sleep past 5:30 because then he will be up later than his 7:30 bedtime, when I call at 6:01 guess what I don’t want to hear “He seemed really tired, he’s still sleeping”
Respect the schedule people, respect me and do what I tell you.
I pay people to care for my child who do exactly what I tell them, I suppose that’s why I pay them but come on! I know you love him, I know you want to do what’s best for him and I know for the 15 hours you may be exposed to him you think that you have a better grasp on what is going on with him than I do.
But you don’t …
I don’t care if he doesn’t seem hungry, 6 o’clock is dinner time, so that is when he eats.
If he is still tired at 5:30 that means maybe bedtime is at 7 instead of 7:30 and I get an extra 30 minutes to myself to be a real human again.
I don’t want to seem rude or mean or unappreciative, I just want you to do what I told you.
You have all been in this situation because you were all mothers, you all had mothers and mothers in law and grandmother and grandmother’s in law who I’m sure did this same thing to you that you are doing to me.
And again, I know you don’t mean it and I know you think you are doing the right thing but really when it comes down to it the right thing is what I tell you because I’m the mom.
I will be much less type A, control freak, stressed out crazy with the second one because at that point I will truly know what I’m doing. But for now, for the remainder of my son’s life as a first child who is breaking his mother in please for the love of GOD, do what I tell you.
