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How, how do you cope with gun/battle mania? How?

Babe is a good kid, but whenever he senses my energy is low, he follows me around. He entertains himself, since I don't have the energy to entertain him, but with wars.

Pewpewpewpewpewpewpewpewpewpew! go the guns, blasters, phasers, whatnot. Bhush! go the bombs and missiles. Bang go the nuclear bombs. And always, always, there's the narrative about how the rebels are shooting, bombarding, killing the bad guys (or vice versa). How they're winning. And always, always, always, he wants me to listen. To approve.

But I don't.

I hate war games. I didn't mind them as a kid, though I never found them all that interesting, but as an adult and a mother, I hate them.

I tolerate them, to a large degree, out of necessity. He's a boy, boys are wired differently. They go through these phases. But... he follows me around with them! And I just don't have the energy to play with him or fight to get him outside.


So, mothers of boys, how did you survive this? How did they survive? Because asking nicely doesn't stop the onslaught; it just defers it.

Date: 2010-08-26 07:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mundungus42.livejournal.com
Earplugs. Barring that, spanking. Or maybe you can order him to play "vacuum and do the dishes?"

But seriously, feel better soon! *hugs*
Edited Date: 2010-08-26 07:46 pm (UTC)

Date: 2010-08-29 06:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] averygoodun.livejournal.com
Heh. If only he would play "vacuum and do the dishes"!

Earplugs only makes him louder, unfortunately. Thing is, this is his form of punishing me for not paying attention to him. He knows what bugs me. That plus that damn psychic link that alerts him to possible danger (low energy = abandonment = fear, I'd imagine. For him) which is, I'm sure, why he follows me around. Doesn't want to go away in case I leave.

Or something.

Thank you, though! *hugs back*

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