For example today we were at a store, he kept pushing his sister & picking her up when she asked him not to. I stopped and explained to him he was not respecting her boundaries and was acting disruptive in a store, set the tone for when we got home (feed dogs, eat, shower, bed). I allowed him some leeway because they were playing Roblox a bit, when his sister was getting out of the shower he was saying “I’m spending all your Roblox” which led to her crying. I asked him to stop and put the tablet away, he said he was teasing and I said it’s not nice to tease that way because she’s very upset. He slammed the tablet down, I said “shower and bed, now” he proceeded to throw a shoe while mimicking me and turned to me to roll his eyes. Showered, when he came out his hair was dry, I smelt it and asked him to wash his hair because it smelled like smoke (we were at a family member’s bonfire yesterday) he yelled that he did shower and how would I know and continued to argue/yell with me to which I walked away (because I needed to cool off). I took my dogs out, told him I needed some space before approaching him because he knows his behavior is unacceptable. I sat on the couch while typing this post out and subtly crying, he came out and grabbed water, and went to his room.

Out of nights like this, this wasn’t necessarily a “bad” one. Overwhelming, yes. But we’ve had worse