When I went to pick up Younger Boy at daycare today I was told that he had really been a problem the past few days.  He hasn't been following directions and has been doing things that he thinks are funny, but makes the younger kids cry.  Apparently this is primarily happening on the way to and from school each day.

I asked him about it on the way home and he threw his backpack and said that they told him they weren't going to tell me.  Not that he hadn't been doing it, but that they weren't going to tell me.  So in his mind he couldn't be accountable, because this is the fault of the daycare for telling me.

We got home and he asked if he could watch TV.  Our rule is no TV until after homework is done.  It hasn't changed the entire ten months he has lived with me.  He told me to f*** off and that he was watching TV. 

More misdirected anger.  More consequences.  It is like we are stuck in a loop and it is hard to give someone a consequence, even a natural consequence, if nothing is ever their fault.

Prayers for Younger Boy.  Prayers for me.  This is so exhausting.  It is every night.  His anger and behavior is escalating lately.  In many ways he is exhibiting a lot of the behaviors of Older Boy...very many ways.