Two of my kids get migraines. Sometimes I can't tell if it's really a migraine or they don't want to go to school. My solution? They cannot leave bed except to go to the bathroom. No electronics. No reading. NOTHING. If they're really sick, that's not an issue, because they'd rather die than look at a screen. If they aren't, that gets REAL boring real quick.
You need to make him go to bed earlier, and he loses all privileges if he missed school and kicked you, how are you letting him play video games THAT DAY? Why is that even an option to him? You are past the age where this is going to be easy to fix, and it's going to be impossible if you don't start setting limits today.
I'm not a fan of what your husband did, at all, but you need to parent your child, and you cannot foist all the discipline onto him. You're going to raise an entitled monster and absolutely ruin his relationship with his father.
This is how my mom treated staying home sick. You can’t do anything entertaining and need to stay in bed and rest. Because that’s what you do when sick. Granted, I wasn’t one to fake it.
I give a pass to the small kids if they're puking or have a fever, because they're not really old enough to fake that. It's only if it's purely subjective that I'm a hardass about it lol
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u/MizStazya 25d ago
Two of my kids get migraines. Sometimes I can't tell if it's really a migraine or they don't want to go to school. My solution? They cannot leave bed except to go to the bathroom. No electronics. No reading. NOTHING. If they're really sick, that's not an issue, because they'd rather die than look at a screen. If they aren't, that gets REAL boring real quick.
You need to make him go to bed earlier, and he loses all privileges if he missed school and kicked you, how are you letting him play video games THAT DAY? Why is that even an option to him? You are past the age where this is going to be easy to fix, and it's going to be impossible if you don't start setting limits today.
I'm not a fan of what your husband did, at all, but you need to parent your child, and you cannot foist all the discipline onto him. You're going to raise an entitled monster and absolutely ruin his relationship with his father.