This morning, I woke, went to work to catch up on some paperwork and had to return home to be a taxi. My daughter went into town and I dropped her at the friend with whom she was to walk into town. In addition to this, my wife managed to get a free pampering session in town and went with a friend. After dropping them off, my son and I went out to catch Pokémon. He was annoyed with me playing Pokémon GO in Southwold yesterday but was more than happy to play it today. In fact, yesterday he accused me of loving the game more than him. I told him, that while he was wrong, he was right to tell me how he felt. And then I explained all the things that we had done which did not involve Pokémon GO yesterday. I do think that it is important to let him know that he can tell me how he feels, but while he was wrong this time, there will be times that he will be right. I forgot to tell him that and will need to tell him that again.
After picking up my daughter, I had to attend a call of nature when back home. During this time, I heard the screaming and shouting. My son, had got one of his NERF guns and took a shot at his sister. She got her NERF crossbow and shot back. Apparently, my son felt this was unfair as he had no bullets. My son, who started the battle, felt it was unfair. And in addition to this, he forgot a very important issue with NERF bullets, That being when you shoot someone, they can pick up the bullets to shoot you back. However by the time I was able to get out to discuss this (I was tempted to walk out of the door and leave them to it) he was in such a bad mood, that he would not listen to logic on this matter. That and he refused to let me look in his room to see if he had bullets there (though he agreed to this later).
Anyway, the day later turned out for the better. And I guess in the interests of fairness, I should point out that my daughter left a bottle of orange juice (mostly empty) with the lid undone on the back seat of my car...
