Growing up and pushing boundaries...

Every Tuesday and Thursday night at about 8.30 when I hear the car pull in to the driveway I think to myself... "please have behaved yourself tonight". Jason takes Zak and two of his mates to Tae Kwon Do and I dread the nights that he comes home and says there has been shenanigans. Last night before they got home I had that feeling of dread. And yep.... Apparently Zak and Gordy were being right little prats and at the end of the class Zak was very rude and disrespectful to Instructor Anne. I asked what he said but Jason said it wasn't so much what he said but HOW he said it.. Sigh... I have a lot of patience for this - I know that he's just growing up and working out how far he can push things. But Jason.. nope.. NO patience whatsoever. I think he expects kids to go from being kids to adults without all the hard stuff in between. I'm not bagging him for it.. I just wish he'd relax a bit more. Its made harder by the fact that he's not Zak's biological Dad and I'm probably too easy on Zak because I worry that he'll feel like Robbie is the favourite.. bla bla bla.. I feel better now I've got that out! This parenting stuff is bloody hard!

xx