It would be great to have another Tween Princess but we have SSLPSH and he’s a bit of a rough guy. I’d love to not have to apologize for my son hitting or throwing a toy at a child but that’s not the case.

Yet again today I opened up our home to my Meetup group and a mom and her son I never met before came in the rain to visit with us. I had high hopes we’d have no incidents today but that wasn’t the case. My little boy had not one but three time outs in his room and I’m sure we won’t be seeing them anytime soon. That’s what my head tells me.

I know that he’s not the only toddler with this problem of playing rough and we do work with him on these behaviors but he does have some bad days too and today seemed to be one of them.

I don’t want to feel judged or embarrassed because he hurts another child and I know that I judge me harder than anyone and the reality is their child isn’t perfect either. They all have their bad days.

I did realize today that maybe play dates here at home aren’t the best idea, that maybe adventures out of the home would be better. He seems to do much better with kids outside the home. That’s not a bad trade off for him to have fun and me to not be mortified. The important thing is I figured this out so I don’t have to keep feeling bad after visits here. Not every time is it this way but if a simple change of no play dates for a while at home makes things easier, so be it.