Zevan has always be so cute and cuddly and sweet.  Now Zevan is being physically aggressive and unresponsive to my disciplining methods.

He deliberately does all this stuff that he knows he should not do, and he just grins at me like it’s funny.  I actually have to tell him, “Do not smile at me like it’s funny.  It’s not funny to <fill in offense here>.  I need you to listen to me.

He won’t stay in time out. 

If I try and keep him in time out he says, “Bad Mom!” and hits me and kicks me and scratches me. 

His first instinct is to hit when he doesn’t get his way. 

If I threaten to take stuff away, he says, “I don’t want it.” 

He is so stubborn with a mean streak.  This has been going on for 3 weeks now and I’m getting nervous. 

Zander did this, too, but he never directed it at hurting me with the intensity that Zevan does.

Doug says, “What did we have to do with Zander?  Don’t we just have to wait it out?”

*sigh* “Yes, but I lost my will to parent him while I waited it out.  I don’t want to do that again.”

Today is apparently my venting day.   

Surely that means I have some smooth sailing and blue skies ahead, right???