Was that a thing, or did I just make that up? Googling "Peanuts angry scribble cloud" didn't come back with as many results as I expected. Just this one.
Anyway, he comes home just under this fucking black cloud and he's soooooo annoyed and so put-upon and he's so fucking unpleasant for the first 10 minutes or so. And I mean, this kid is usually pretty fucking goofy and charming. I'm like yooooo, can you just go in like, a chill-out, decontamination chamber for like, 15 minutes when you come home? How 'bout you crawl into your room via your window and cocoon for 10 min or whatever until you calm the fuck down, and then you can come out into our shared living space and we can do the how-was-your-day bit.
Srsly, though, what do you even do about this shit? Just ride it out? I thought the other kid was moody last year, too; if he goes through this ultra-mood phase when he's in 10th next year, I'mma lose my shit. Also, Marv is moody AF, too. She's so impatient and freaks out at the slightest provocation. So, it's like, all eggshells all the time.
I know it's normal and natural and all that, and I wouldn't actually medicate them even if I could (I don't think there's mood stabilizers for puberty, right?) but some days, y'all, I'm like, OMG, can I give you a Xanny or some [insert name of anti-whatever meds, I really don't know any of them.] or even like, a Benadryl so you'd just go to sleep at a decent time without complaining? (Can you even give Benadryl to children? My pharma knowledge only covers acetaminophen & ibuprofen. I don't even quite understand naproxen. Does Benadryl come in tablets/capsules? I tried it once as a child, and it was a syrup that was so horrible, the memory makes me shudder & feel like throwing up, so.)
(Seriously, it was so horrible. I feel ill and have to go lie down now. Under a scribble cloud of sickness.)
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