Kenny Rogers “What about Me Album cover.  I guess he knows what I am talking about.

 Today kids are very self-centered and think they are entitled to everything. They see a day off as their time, when asked to do chores or simply clean up their room they moan and groan about they need time to rest, they’re tired, or as mentioned earlier, it is their day off. Well to that I say “What about me?”

I work all day long, I have no days off; and when I do take time off it is usually because I am sick and I lay in bed suffering while I am hoping for a miracle to that I can get up and do the things that need to be done.

Then I wonder whose fault it is and I realize that in part it is my own fault, there are two parents in this household so I take only fifty percent the blame. I am the pusher why my partner is the disciplinary parent, not that I don’t punish or discipline but I am more patience; I listen before I loose my come sense. I hate having to be on top of them and while sometimes I am; they do take advantage of the time when I am busy with dinner or work, to slip away and do what they want; then I realize they are not on task and I use to become a raging lunatic.

Now I just simply tell them, what they can and cannot do, the oldest is eighteen and he will attempt to get himself together even if it takes all day. The younger one, she is definitely my challenger, she will challenger every work I speak; but occasionally she will surprise me and do as I ask with a simple sure mommy, which of cause has me baffled when it happens.

Even still they feel that their day off is a day for them to do as they please when they please, and I stay on top of the fact that there are something they cannot back out of, there are some things that they must do and I always tell them: What about me? When to I get time off? That usually quiets them for a short time, but not with eyes rolling and a look of distaste on their face.

I chuckle to myself at these moments, because as time will have it; they both will grow up and if they do have children, will find they have turned into a parent, and start to wonder: What about me?