When your 6 year old is mad at you

Well... Alex has been mad at me all evening because I didn't let him win!

We have an understanding. When he's a good boy at Karate, I stop on the way home and pick him up Wendy's french fries. AND I let him play with my GPS! Sometimes he puts in addresses in California or North Carolina, and he gets mad because I'm not following the directions. He does like it when the GPS yells at me to "make a legal U-turn though". Chances are... I'll make an illegal one but it doesn't know that!

Today Mr. Orange Belt with 3 stripes refused to go into Karate. Of all days, its the day when Grand Master is visiting. Grand Master got the "grand idea" that I should bring a chair in and sit in the chair to see if he'd go in. NO WAY IN HELL! That ticked him off further. One of the pre-black belts who is helps out with the "ninja" class (little kiddies) bribed him in with a lollipop. He worked for 5 minutes.. did a couple 8 point stars to get the RED lollipop (had to be red) and then ran back out.

Grand Master said that if he's defiant again like that he'll just have one of the instructors come out and teach him in the waiting room.

Ain't takin' no cr@p from a 6 year old :) He means business!

Since he didn't do more than 5 minutes of class... I went straight home. No Wendy's and no detours on the GPS to another state.

I'm so mean!!!!

Alex told me he was "sad with me" :(

I felt bad about it, but I know I need to stand my ground.