We have spent today in the company of Damien, the Child Who Bears the Number of the Beast.
I know that even the most delusional person in the known universe couldn’t fit my name in to the top 55-billion ‘Best Parent’ list.
But, because I observe places, people and behaviours, I see how people act – and react – to how they’re being treated.
I see how people put themselves down, I see how people promote themselves to higher pecking orders in the pack.
I see control being given away – and taken.
And I see these things occurring when they shouldn’t.
Today I have seen:
* A child refusing to eat his main meal, instead demanding ice cream. This is not unusual.
* A child refusing to sit at the table while everyone else ate. This is not unusual.
* A child (obviously over tired) refusing to go to bed, instead crying until being permitted to sit on – and fall asleep on – a favoured adult’s lap. This is not unusual.
* A child having screaming tantrums so many times that I’ve lost count. This is not unusual.
And that’s just today.
This child rules the family.
He controls his parents, he controls his grandparents.
He is two and a half years old and he is in charge.
The consistency of his behaviour underlines the abject lack of consistency of discipline with which the family unit treats him.
The Lovely S will feel offended when she reads this, but she needn’t.
I’m not criticising her.
Or her parents.
I’m criticising Damien, the World’s Most Evil and Manipulative Child.
B.
Do blame the parents. They can be lovely people (and I’m sure they are) but so shite at the discipline stuff! S knows this too (and is probably tearing her hair out as much as you were!)
Brains turn to mush when people have children – and Damien is merely a product of parental-mush-brain syndrome.
People should have a license to have children, I swear!
PS: pmsl @ how well you lean on stuff! You were born to that role Sirrah!
Sooz: It’s the control that Damien exerts. Every single thing is a battle against his will. I don’t blame the parents, not in the least. Nor the grandparents. I blame the Evil Child that bears the Number of the Beast. I have to disagree that Damien is a product of parental anything. He is the product of the spawn of the devil, he is the anti-Christ. He is evil.