Small boys and squirt guns..

..I can feel my sanity ebbing away..

Published on March 26, 2004 By dharmagrl In Home & Family

I don't know why I do it. I must have had a momentary lapse in my reasoning, a few seconds of madness...but I invited my son's friend to sleep over with us tonight.

I usually don't mind the kids having friends over to stay, if Dave's here...at least then I have some back-up when things get rough.
But, as we all know, he's gone..and I'm in the house with 4 children, 3 of them boys aged 9, 8 and 7.

My eldest son morphs into someone else when he has friends over. He gets really cocky, really smart...acts like he owns the place and can do what he want, when he wants to. He KNOWS that's not the case, he KNOWS I'm going to get onto him for it, so I really don't understand why he does it. My youngest just goes along with whatever the others are doing..and my daughter retreats to her room with ther nose in the air, because she's "too old to play with juvenile boys".

Earlier they got squirt guns out to play with..I didn't mind, after the storm passed the sun came out and it was pleasant again for a while - I did, however, mind that they left the patio doors open whilst they were squirting each other out on the deck and soaked my dining room floor. I also minded that they thought it would be funny to shake a can of root beer and hold it over the trash can whilst they opened it - I think there's probably still sticky stuff on the ceiling that I missed. I REALLY minded when I found them playing 'man-hunt' in MY bedroom, they all know better than that.....arrrrggghhh!!!!!!! BOYS!!!!!

I have to say though, that the friend, the kid that's the guest, is being very well behaved. This is his first sleepover, ever - so I'm expecting to have to call his mom and take him home around 3am because he's afraid to sleep anywhere other than his own bed.

Someone please tell me why I did this...please? And if I show signs of ever doing this again, will someone please stop me?!!

Please, plese let them go to sleep..soon......please.........

Comments

BigDreamer415

on Mar 26, 2004

Hey, I don't know why I'm writing this, I just feel like commenting, but I've babysat a lot... and this doesn't seem to be your problem, but if they won't shut up say "we're going to play a game, k? Whoever can be quitest the longest wins!!! Ready, set, go!" My brother's 12 and it still works with him, if I just need some quite. lol

--Sarah

JillUser

on Mar 28, 2004

Sarah, don't take this the wrong way but your brother is unusual. I have a lot of experience with little boys. I have two of my own. There are no girls in my husand's family. I grew up playing on an almost daily basis with about 4 or 5 boy cousins. That game wouldn't work with any of them.

The boys in my life sound like the ones in Dharma's life. My husband did find a nondestructive kind of gun to play with. It shoots air! It is called an airzooka. It is a lot of fun and the only destruction that might happen due to its use is what ever gets crashed into when they are running around shooting each other or trying to escape getting shot. It is this big, plastic, telescoping cylinder with a handle. You pull back a cord in the back that has a plastic base attached to it. There is even a site on it for aiming. Let go at you target and a big burst of air whops them. If you hit them in the head you can see their hair get hit by the wind.

I have experience with the constant messes boys create. We haven't had the sleep over experience yet though. My oldest is 7 and doesn't seem interested.

We all lose are mind occasionally when it comes to indulging our kids. I question my sanity every time I find myself in a place like Chuck E Cheese

werewolf

on May 09, 2004

ahhh, I have also seen that transformation from nice sweet little boy, to cocky, back-talking, little brat. I wonder if he's that way at school around all his other friends, or if he saves it just for us. I had to yank him out of the playroom during one sleep over because of something I heard him say about his mother. When we were alone in his room, discussing why his behavior was upsetting, he was fine. He listened, he apologized and seemed to feel truly sorry. I walked him back to the playroom and as I was shutting the door -*poof*- there was brat boy again. It was astounding.

Did your daughter have sleepovers with more than 2 other girls? That's a whole other ball of wax

dharmagrl

on May 09, 2004

Did your daughter have sleepovers with more than 2 other girls?

Yes, once. I'm not making that mistake again. Girls, especially hormonal pre-teens, are damn mean! I was amazed at how vicious they were.

Davey's attitude is like that in front of his friends all the time, and he's starting to show that face to me more regularly. Needless to say I don't like it too much!

werewolf

on May 09, 2004

Understood...During my daughters sleepover there was a different girl coming out of the room crying every hour until 4am or so when they all became emotionally exhausted and crashed. Never again in my lifetime.

Erk.

on May 10, 2004

Hmmmm.... methinks I see a pattern here.....

So, the girls are like this when they're young eh??

I think I just discovered an answer to one of life's great mysteries, men!

They have had years and years of practice!!

Eric promises to never argue with any woman, ever again.

I'm staying on your good side(s)

Wreckless

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