But NO Elephants ...!
DD has been having a really rough time with all the COVID-19 lockdown, remote schooling, and social-distancing changes the state is requesting.
Yesterday was her worst day since March. She was screaming, raging, crying, throwing things, getting clingy, slamming doors, and saying angry & hateful things ... just because I told her that she had to stop playing Run 3 and messing around with the digital drawings and actually DO her ELA and Math assignments.
After FINALLY getting her to work on them - which took nearly 12 hours of fighting and tantruming and random driving in my car - DH started complaining about how I didn't direct her to talk about her feelings during her Google Meets with one of the school counselors (currently, the counselor is working on social skills) because DD spent the whole time talking about Pokemon ... and then he brings up that he wanted to get a dog. (BTW, he never told me he wanted to get a dog in the weeks before the official lockdown orders, although he has in the past expressed that he wanted a dog. This is baffling to me since I have never seen him interacting with the dogs his dog-owning family members have.)
WHAT THE ACTUAL F^CK?
So, not only would I have to deal with a tantruming child who cannot be trusted to do her schoolwork unless I check on her every few minutes, but I would also have to walk, feed, train, and otherwise supervise A F^CKING DOG?????
Yes, DH, I said "no dog" not because I am mean and don't love you or our child, but it is because I do not have the mental energy to do more than I am doing and still keep it together.
But, hey, sure, paint me as the bad guy because I said "no" to a dog that I don't want but would be my responsibility anyway.
I mean, on the bright side, it's not like they're asking for an elephant, right?
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Liz
DD (3/2010)
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