Newton’s Law

For every action, there’s a reaction (equal and opposite to be exact). I feel sometimes that’s what you fail to understand or don’t care about. 

It’s a new year and I hope you can take the opportunity to change your habits in this area. You decided to sleep an extra 15 minutes, we were 10 minutes late to church. You wanted to eat during Vinh’s nap time. He’s not napping now. Wasted over 2 hours we could have just gone to Bambu or visited Vince. Now he’s crying uncontrollably and your response is let him be. You seem to be okay inconveniencing him and others when it suits you, but when it doesn’t suit you, it’s all about Vinh. Anyhow, this isn’t the way I intended to start the new year, but I guess it’s my fault for not being firm. And he’s been screaming for 15 mins because you said let him be. But if you were blowing me you’d want to be next to his room so you can hear him. It’s gonna be hard, but I’m gonna work this year on letting you see the real consequences of your actions and not the “consequences” you think are consequences, like this blog. How are you ever gonna learn if I’m always trying to prevent things from happening. That’s the difference between you and I. I try to prevent bad things from happening. You seem to be okay letting them happen and dealing with it. Let’s hope no one gets seriously hurt in the process. By the way, your son found a hanging and got it caught around his neck when I “let him be”. Luckily nothing happened. You left it in the crib and he got it out.