Grounded Big B means no fun for me!

   The last three weeks with Big B have been difficult. What I am about to blog about I am sure is normal and everyone has been through it, however it is my first time and I am frustrated. He is 5 1/2 and 95% of the time he is a great kid. Well mannered, very thoughtful and typically if I ask him to do something he is pretty quick to get on to it, but not lately. If I say stop, he goes, if I say up, he goes down. It seems like out right defiance. Everyone says this is normal, that he is just pushing boundaries, but I don't like it.
   This week at school they had a field trip to Disney on Ice. He disobeyed his teacher, aggravated his fellow classmates and was the ring leader in a bathroom incident that out right defied what the teacher had asked him to do. This was the third field trip in four months that he was horrible! At school he will not stay on his cot at nap time, bothering his classmates and in one incident chipping paint off the wall.
   Daddy and I have discussed many different methods of how to handle the situation. Grounding him from his ipod, wii and playstation first. This only affected him about a day. Taking away toys and playdates. Still no reaction. This week he was grounded from all electronics for 2 days and he had to miss Eggstravaganza at church. I was so disappointed! I really wanted to attend this event, but we couldn't go because he was grounded. I want to scream "I did my time already, now I'm grown, why do I not get to have fun because he was bad?", but I know at the end of the day its the right thing to do. We must stand united as parents in disciplining our children and although I was really disappointed I didn't get to go, it made a bigger statement to Big B that what mommy and daddy say, goes.
   Of course he will not see the light at 5 1/2 because he didn't get to go to Eggstravaganza, and probably won't remember that this event even occurred in a few days, however the short term impact is just as important. Today we were all sad because we had to miss this event, but we are one step closer to insuring that our son learns that there are consequences for his actions. Being a mom with it all is hard work, but worth it, even when I have to miss out!