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<blockquote data-quote="Bunny" data-source="post: 484431"><p>Cooking. His favorite thing to do is help me in the kitchen. This weekend we made pumpkin muffins (we had made them already, but he ate them all and wanted more). He likes to help with dinner. I've even had him make dinner on a couple of nights when I had a headache and didn't feel well. He was more than happy to comply with that. </p><p></p><p>But even that sometimes becomes an issue. He brought home a cook book from the school library and one Sunday morning I asked him to sit with me so that we could go through it. He wanted to make some things out of it and I wanted to know which onces so that I could make sure that I had what he needed in the house. Nope. He wanted nothing to do with it. Apparently he was trying to "punish" me (his word) because I asked him to go through the book. It's like he wants to have his cake and eat it, too. He wants my attention, but only when it is convenient for him. We were supposed to do something together (I can't even remember what it was) and I told him it was time to do it. "Later!!" was his response. I reminded him that this was the time we said we were going to do it and that I could not do it later because I would be busy. "LATER!!" Fine. I went on with my day. Can you guess what happened? Later (several hours later) when I was busy with something else, that was when he decided that he had to have my attention and when I would not drop what I was doing, it became a screaming fit. </p><p></p><p>I do try to do things that he wants, but he wants me to be his beck and call girl and I am just not willing to do that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bunny, post: 484431"] Cooking. His favorite thing to do is help me in the kitchen. This weekend we made pumpkin muffins (we had made them already, but he ate them all and wanted more). He likes to help with dinner. I've even had him make dinner on a couple of nights when I had a headache and didn't feel well. He was more than happy to comply with that. But even that sometimes becomes an issue. He brought home a cook book from the school library and one Sunday morning I asked him to sit with me so that we could go through it. He wanted to make some things out of it and I wanted to know which onces so that I could make sure that I had what he needed in the house. Nope. He wanted nothing to do with it. Apparently he was trying to "punish" me (his word) because I asked him to go through the book. It's like he wants to have his cake and eat it, too. He wants my attention, but only when it is convenient for him. We were supposed to do something together (I can't even remember what it was) and I told him it was time to do it. "Later!!" was his response. I reminded him that this was the time we said we were going to do it and that I could not do it later because I would be busy. "LATER!!" Fine. I went on with my day. Can you guess what happened? Later (several hours later) when I was busy with something else, that was when he decided that he had to have my attention and when I would not drop what I was doing, it became a screaming fit. I do try to do things that he wants, but he wants me to be his beck and call girl and I am just not willing to do that. [/QUOTE]
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