I agree. It didn't "work out", OP. You have to learn to be better about managing your expectations and allow your child to be a child. Today you metaphorically beat her into submission. |
| She didn’t wake up until 8:45. Why hadn’t you already eaten breakfast yourself? No need to wait for her to make yourself some toast. |
and she'll have some mixed memories of Christmas... |
The fact remains she wasn't hungry. You were and you made her eat on your dumb pregnant lady timeline even though she wanted to open presents. You picked a fight and made her apologize on Christmas morning. You're the brat! I'm glad she told you what's up with your pancakes! |
I may be the only one on OP’s side. OP is teaching her kid that manners are important. Sounds like how my parents would have handled it. For you other posters, your kids are probably the ones calling you stupid because you forgot to do their homework for them. |
NP- OP any way you slice it you were dead wrong. All your 4 year old has learned to do is manage her irrational mother. Which, frankly, she shouldn't have to worry about this morning. Hopefully you are just hormonal and not always like this but if you are, please learn to manage your emotions better. For everyone's sake. |
You were dead wrong, OP. You could really learn a lot if you stopped being so defensive. Do not ask a four-year-old to stop opening presents to eat because you are hungry and do not send a four-year-old to her room on Christmas morning. You children are going to become far worse than "selfish brats" if you don't learn from this. |
I Know! |
Assuming extremes really doesn't help your or OP's case here, PP. If your parents did this to you on Christmas morning then they were irrational as well and had no clue about child development. Teaching manners is important. However OP set her very young child up for failure by demanding that she stop opening presents to eat because her mother was hungry! Submission is not lesson learned. |
That is when you take your plate of pancakes over to the couch and sit and watch her open gifts. Or grab a slice of cheese out of the fridge to hold you over. Next year, do it differently. If you have to eat at a certain time, eat on the couch. |
This. Please learn from this, OP. |
+1 Exactly. OP, why was this breakfast situation so difficult to navigate for you? Even in hindsight do you honestly think you handled this appropriately?! |
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Op is the type who has to make everything all about her. Once you have a child no one cares about you being pregnant again. You don't get to be The Most important Person in the Room any more. You're a grown-ass woman.
Eat some ducking crackers if you are hungry. |
Oh please. I am on my kids all the time about manners. If I made them stop opening presents on Christmas morning, the absolute zenith of life when you're a kid, because *I* was hungry and needed to cram my face with pancakes RIGHT THEN, I would fully expect a fit to ensue. Op is a giant baby who set her daughter up and then manipulated her into feeling sorry for OP to the point she had to apologize. AT FOUR. |
Obviously, she will not have you as active model for good manners. Also, children always try to please abusive parent and you, OP, are so abusive that you should be reported to CPS.Life with you must be Hell. |