Anything But Gray

Ben is all excited because THREE THINGS are happening tomorrow…

A website they go to Poptropica…has some new kind of room opening or something. The kids are excited.
They go back to school !
It's my birthday!!

So Ben and I are having a conversation about this….he clearly says it's all happening tomorrow. I clearly say the same thing….tomorrow.  Ben promptly goes to the computer and freaks out because the new thing on Poptropica is not happening and it was suppose to happen TOMORROW!!!  Now, I'm annoyed. Ben is impossible to get through to sometimes. Once he's got something in his head…that is it.  Stubborn, stubborn, STUBBORN and honest to God, I really think this is gong to be an issue as he gets older. He just digs his heels in the ground and just refuses to listen…..annoying as all hell, let me tell you. So I'm gearing up for this stupid, dumb, ridiculous fight that I can tell I'm about to have with Ben.

I explain….in a completely frustrated tone…"Ben you just said this was all tomorrow. You KNOW it's happening tomorrow!!" Ben turns around, eyes red, tears overflowing, and looks at me in all his 6 year old innocence and says, through his sobs….

"But Mommy, today IS tomorrow!!!!!" and starts to cry even harder.

In that split second, I realize the problem…..

Ben doesn't know what tomorrow means.
He thinks "tomorrow" is a specific day!
I felt so bad!!! This poor kid…no wonder he's freaking out!

So I take him to the couch and ask him if he knows what tomorrow means. And of course, because even though he's only 6, we can't forget he is, after all, a male..he says "Yes!!!" all testy. Like how dare I insult his intelligence….

So I say I want to make sure you do know exactly what it means. So I get one of his little charts he gets at school off the fridge and show him on if you are on this day (and I point at the day) the next day (I point at the next day…) is tomorrow. Tomorrow is always the next day. And I try to explain it to him. I think he might have got it. We'll see.

Explaining the concept of tomorrow is tough!! LOL
Way harder than I ever thought it would be!!

And by the way…MY BIRTHDAY IS TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ha!!!