My son is mad at me. Believe it or not, in his 9.5+ years on this Earth, he has never really been MAD at me. Well, maybe when he was 3. In a 3-year old kind of way. But in the time since he became a reasonable, logical, well-behaved intelligent kid, he has never been slam-the-door mad.
His friend, who is only a year older than him, doesn't really have a whole lot of parental involvement when it comes to movie ratings, music content, and in this case, video games.
Thing 1 got a video game system for Christmas this year, because he really wanted one, and he's a good kid. The amazing thing is, we don't even have to regulate his game-playing. He'd much rather be outside playing (even in the winter) than sitting in front of the tv. So it hasn't posed any trouble for us. Yet.
His friend has been telling him all about this game called Halo. How fun it is, how awesome it is, how Thing 1 absolutely HAS to play it.
So I researched it. It's rated "M for Mature". I don't think so. Sorry. I will admit, he does have a couple "T for Teen" games, but he has also watched several PG-13 movies, so at least I'm consistently lax. But this game? No way.
So I told him, "sorry, no." He pouted, went upstairs, slammed his door and said "This sucks!"
Which is true. It does suck. Not getting what we want sucks.
The good news is, about 3 minutes later he was back downstairs, himself again, shooting the breeze with me about something he saw in the newspaper.
Phew.
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2 comments:
As long as you always remember you're the mom, not the friend, you'll trust your gut and you'll all turn out fine.
I'm proud of you (again :) )
shucks. Thanx. And by the sounds of your son you are a phenomenom! Got any bread left?
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