Withdrawals

This last week B-man watched a lot of television. He really had no choice, it was the easy way to keep him separated from germs, and to keep him entertained while both parents were sick. Normally he watches at most an hour a day, but some days he doesn't watch any. Sunday he literally watched it all day as M and I were both in a stupor from being sick. Now we are paying for it with some serious withdrawals.

All day yesterday (when he wasn't in school) he kept whining and asking to watch t.v. We kept saying no, and trying to entertain him with other methods. Nothing worked. He went to bed crying about it. He suddenly became obsessed with a "Rescue Heroes" show that I didn't even know existed. Apparently he is trying to learn the theme song to it... M and I even had our own FHE about what we were going to do, and how he could "earn" t.v. time.

Today I thought was going to be more of the same. It started out with an equal number of tantrums, but then magically in the early evening things started to calm down. The weather was nice enough so that we could go outside (not possible last week) and he remembered how to use his imagination. He still mentioned it a few times, but he wasn't in panic mode, and he didn't cry himself to sleep about it. What a relief! They don't call it the "wretched stone" for nothing!