Ethan finished school early for the summer. I'm very happy about it too, as out of both the boys, Ethan is the most difficult to teach. His attitude is atrocious and I can only hope that next year is not a repeat.
Earlier this morning Ethan tattled on his brother that he was up early in the morning playing his handheld video game. Since I have a rule no video games till after school, and Aiden knows this, he was in lots of trouble.
The last time he played his handheld before school, his punishment was to write 50 times, "I will not play my game". On top of that, he had his game taken away for a week and was warned the next time he played on a school morning, he'd lose his handheld for the entire summer!
Sadly, this obviously meant nothing to him and I was forced to enforce the punishment of taking his handheld away for the whole summer. But Mom didn't think it was a harsh enough punishment to get the point across, and insisted that I take ALL video games from him for the whole summer. She didn't even want him watching Ethan play video games. I finally had to say to her, look, I don't mean to be soft, but like what the hell is he going to do all summer? She understood and said that he could watch Ethan. ::Sighs::
Aiden however is not the only fresh one in the house. And after the sentencing of Aiden for the bad behavior, I decided to take a peek on mom's laptop at the history of what Ethan's been up to lately online. Mom gave Ethan the privilege of playing on it for the past month. There was an incident however in which Ethan started searching Youtube for inappropriate videos having to do with sex!! He's 11 years old going on 12 in August.
Naturally, I confronted Ethan about this and he promised me that he was only curious and would never search for things like this again. Since this was the first time, and I had no reason to not trust him at his word, I agreed. I also talked to my Ex-husband about this as I felt it was important that he be on the same page as to what was going on.
As I was saying, today I checked his history on mom's laptop. Not only did Ethan lose his privilege to play on the laptop indefinitely, but he had to be talked to about what he was looking up. Oh my god.... it was awful the things he was looking up!! Everything and anything you can imagine. From "Prostitutes to Whores", to some videos entitled: " how to tell my parents I'm gay!" I was beside myself!! I started wondering if he felt gay or something (Not that I'd care at all if that was the case). I was just so much in shock in general over it.
Anyways, once again, tonight I had to confront him. I had to ask questions I thought I'd not have to ask for a few more years at least! But this was the first time the answer "No" was a relief for me. Things I asked," Do you know what a Prostitute is?" Ethan: "No", "Do you know what a Whore is?" Ethan: "No." Do you know what "gay" means? Ethan says, "umm does it mean cursed?" (((smiles and laughs at the innocence) Awww he was clueless my baby and I was SOOO happy he was. However, I did explain the meanings to all the things he looked up. (In kid terms of course). Nothing graphic and luckily I didn't have to have the "sex talk" ...... yet. ::sighs:: ughhh I think 5 more gray hairs just sprouted.
A few hours later I walk into the porch to hear Aiden yelling at Ethan. "I'm NOT a dork!!" To which Ethan yelled back. "you are SO a dork you MOFO!" Aiden replied "FINE,... but I'm NOT a dork! " ::sighs again:: UAHhhh I said, do you know what a "MOFO" is Ethan? "No".... he said nervously.... so I explained to him what it was. (to Mom too as she was clueless hahaha very funny to me by the way). When Ethan learned what bad words it stood for,..... his little eyebrows raised up and he apologized as did Aiden quite immediately. "No more calling each other MOFO understood?" Dear god.
So that was my day and night.
hahah Insane... truly I'm insane. Honestly I just don't know sometimes. Mom continues to tell me "told you so, I told you not to have kids but do YOU listen noooooooo" Yeah thanks a heap mom rub it in a little deeper why don't you! Geesh!
Both kids are finally sleeping... seems like the longest day ever. I need a vacation... Oh wait that's right too Aiden still has school tomorrow, oh fun. :( He's almost done thank god.. then I can relax a little.
Speechless.. yeah I was too.
PS. That's not all I did. I also went out brought home 4 boxes plus a LARGE suitcase filled with the kids baby clothes from my storage unit. Took 3 of the 4 boxes downstair to sort, sorted them, and then tossed out lots of things I don't want/need to goodwill. Then helped with trash. Earlier I finally moved the duck coupe over and gave them straw for the first time. They seem very happy now and I convince everyone to make this move be the last. :) YAY!
