Good Cop/Bad Cop

I am not sure what it is like in your household, but in mine, I am the bad cop. Not too sure as to how I got that permanent role, but from day one it has been me being the heavy hitter when it comes to disciplining our boys. Good Cop just sits there and lets me do it, or will in front of them tell I shouldn't have done that or that I was a little too harsh on one of them. If you don't like what I'm doing...take over.

DW can never give the boys an answer....wait i take that back. The answer he gives is ..... you guessed it..... "Go Ask Your Mother". That pretty much sums it up. So it is my decision if they can or can not do something. Then if he doesn't like that I gave them permission, he will later ask "Why are you letting them do that?". OMG....enough to make me want to scream.

Tonight I had a huge issue with the Z-Man. He decided he was going to print of 15 pages in colour, of I am not sure what.....lets just say I lost it a bit. The information he was printing wasn't even what he needed, he just assumed it was. I raised my voice, told him to cancel the printing job, instructed him that the next time he wanted to print something he would have to go through us first. I then proceeded to ask him if he was going to pay for the next ink cartridge....and explained that they are not cheep.

You would have thought that I had just spanked the kid with a wooden spoon...DW says to me in front of a 13 year old pubescent boy....enough...i think he gets the point. I didn't see you steppin' up top the plate to offer any guidance in the discipline department tonight. It just really gets my goat.

I know he doesn't do it maliciously, or to cause a problem. Just the fact that he doesn't understand that he is doing it makes it all that much worse. I had to leave the room, couldn't take any more of beining the bad cop. After I left i over heard DW saying to Z-Man "Before you print anything else, you better ask you mom.". Hey big guy, you could have given permission too.

I guess it is inevitable....when my children grow up and look back....I'll be the Bad Cop.....