Well, today has been no different than any of the other days. OK a little but only petty stuff. Got up, sson was already up and had his breakfast and was ready for school. DW was busy on her laptop with misc paper work (we ended up about an hour north for an interview for her). I walked Sson out to the bus and waited with him (as usual - just to make sure he gets on the bus and goes to school). While out there I asked him repeatedly to please pull up his pants and not walk through/splash in puddles (gets his pants wet with no time to go change and chance of catching cold, which i pointed out to him a few times). While all this was transpiring it was then that Sson decided to try and splash me by kicking up water with his shoes, hence getting his pants even more wet than just the cuffs. It was kinda funny to anyone else walking by.... but the frustration lvl was through the roof. The bus finally gets there and he's off to school, yeah freedom for at least some of the day.

I go back inside and explain to DW what had transpired and she giggles at it and then I do to - stress relief more than anything else. So we go to the interview (I drove by choice) and come home whilst listening to DW ramble on about a waste of time and that gut feeling "they wont call back". So we get home and I go to meet the bus when Sson is dropped off and his pants are still wet or he kept jumping in puddles all day at school. I ask again for him to pull his pants up. He ignores me. I ask again he feigns the action of actually doing it. I ask a third time and he has a hissy fit that he did it already and to leave him alone. OK I can respect that, but his pants are still wet. So in the house we go and I ask him to take off his hat (old school I know but its how I was raised). He ignores me *again* and again I ask for him to remove his hat. He takes it off and while my back is turned puts it on and grimaces at me like haha i did what i wanted and you cant do anything about it.... So I take it off for him and not wanting a repeat of 5 seconds ago put it up out of reach. He gets pissed and stomps off to his room.

I remind him he needs glasses if hes going to watch tv (he does to, the doctor has said if he doesn't wear them when they are needed Sson could be nearsighted for the rest of his life) he puts up a fuss and then DW calls me into bedroom and tells me to back off for abit. OK as i yet again get defeated and walk off with more of my authority out the window..... So as I'm sitting in front of the computer I see Sson strip to his undies and then proceed to "lounge" in his room. I ask him to please put some pants on, he gives a fuss and DW strikes again. OK ...... he then comes out of his room just before I'm heading into the kitchen to prepare dinner and informs me he's going to get a snack. No I said and he is in the kitchen before I raise my voice and say no and to please wait until dinner. He puts up another fuss and DW comes swooping in and tells me that she heard my voice and i need to calm down.

Then DW goes into the kitchen and you guessed it gets a snack for Sson and asks him to come snuggle and talk .... I'm losing my freaking mind here.... I will admit that I have been abit gruff with Sson in the past (according to DW) and I know this and have tried to change the way I speak to him and how I ask him to do stuff. But she is still cutting in where she shouldn't and not letting me do what she expects me to do. Due to the fact that she is doing it after a battle with Sson and she has to come in and "referee" the 2 of us. Where usually I end up getting blamed for a foul most of the time and it is just driving the wedge between Sson and I further apart. Where he will not listen and not do as I ask, and along with this he has gotten extremely brazen with the statements and the attitude. Where if it were any other parents it would not be this way and certainly not if he were with his father.

I'm grasping at straws here and I now this is something that should be done on a couch with a professional but... .....yeah like that's gonna happen.... anyway..... grrrrrr......