Mothers Can I Get an Amen If….

Sometimes/most of the time it feels like you’re a single parent even though you’re married. You’re the one who has to play the good cop and the bad cop. You set the rules. You help with homework, sign the school work, permission slips. Take them to school/daycare in the morning, pick them up after work. If they’re sick? Yep you’re the one who stays up with them and then you go to work the next morning or have to take a sick day from work to stay home with them. And then, and then…pow! Somebody wants to throw their two cents in! Really? Now you want to tell me because he feels hot to you that I should give him some Tylenol, never mind the fact that I just pumped him full of another medication. Now you want to know why he can’t watch a certain TV show? Could it be because it comes on during the school week at 9 o’clock and oh yeah he should be sleeping already?!? Now you want to know why his teacher is giving him sooo much homework? Could it be that he’s no longer in Kindergarten and needs to learn more than his ABC’s and that he’s had this much homework since the school year began?
Now this doesn’t happen often (and if it happens to you all the time, you have my deepest sympathies) and usually when it does it’s because he’s working extra hours or the night shift, but really that’s no excuse for this type of behavior. I guess what irks me is that he thinks he can come into the middle of whatever situation may be  going on and insert himself into the scene. If he would just ask for an update about what’s been going on, I would be a much happier wife and mother! Has this every played out in your household? How do you handle it? I guess I’m handling it rather well considering I haven’t appeared on a “very special episode of Snapped”.