My kid is a stick in the mud lately

[auberge]

Am I the other one?

I woke him up this morning and said "Happy valentines day" and he said " I don't want valentines day". Then told me he didn't want to go to school.

I took him to a indoor playground last week for a play date and he stayed plastered to my side the whole time.

We took him outside yesterday to ride his new skateboard. I got on it to show him how to ride and he got mad at me and then went back in the house.

Wtf? Tell me this is just a phase

[Willis Jackson]

DS gets in funks sometimes, too. It's a bummer.

[Willis Jackson]

Oh, and everything is a phase.

[stealthmom]

Honesty my son is like this most of the time. We went through this giant ordeal last night because he didn-t wabt to give his friendsx the valentines I bought. He wanted to keep them all fir himself.

He also stopped toting after three houses this year. I was PISSED.

[Jem]

My guy gets like that sometimes too. It comes and goes. But it does drive me nuts when we walk all the way to the playground and then he won't play!

[dbsk8dance]

Yeah. DS is this way a lot of time too. It needs to be his idea. :/ everything.

[whereintheworld]

This is my DS1 to a T. It's so frustrating. Anything I suggest he wants to do the opposite, just for the sake of doing the opposite.

If he gets in an "I don't wanna" mood, I ask him to turn it around and instead of telling me what he doesn't want to do, please tell me something he DOES want to do. I can't handle his negatively all the time. So instead of "I don't wanna play inside" I would ask him to turn it around and at least tell me something he does want to do - doesn't mean we're going to do it, but at least it's less grating to listen to.

[mlvmd]

My darling child recently learned the word "hate." So that's been great for everyone.