The out-of-synch mom
Lately, OmegaMom has been on the dotter’s general shit list.
There are two reasons for this: number one, mommy just isn’t fun, the way daddy is. Mommy takes OmegaDotter for a walk, or out to the playground, and sort of expects the dotter to…well…walk, or play (but not necessarily with mommy). And then mommy is considered Mean Mommy in general.
For example: mommy, when confronted with the dotter crashing someone else’s birthday party at the park, and the crashees (very nicely!) offering some cake (whenever they were going to have the cake) before mommy could intercept the offer, shortly before mommy was planning to take the dotter home from the park anyway…well, mommy pretty much said, “Sorry, kiddo, it’s time to go home.”
This didn’t go over very well.
Then, there’s the fact that the dotter is suddenly not taking her naps.
So dotter is grumpy, and mommy gets grumpy in return, and dotter gets frowny-faced and whiny, and mommy gets eye-rolling going, and the whole thing turns into a horrible feedback loop where dotter pouts (out loud) that she wants daddy and mommy pouts (silently) that nothing she does makes the dotter happy.
So, moms out there. Reassure me. Tell me that you, too, have periods (of multiple days in a row) where you and the child just don’t seem to be in synch, and no-one’s happy and no-one’s having any fun.
Grump.
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