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The First Time Your Kid Says They Don’t Like You

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“I don’t like you, I don’t want to live with you.”
Those are the words straight from my three-year-old son’s mouth.  Aimed at me.  And for what?  I can’t quite remember.  Something silly like… he wanted to turn right and I turned left. Toddlers…
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You hear those mommy stories of the first time they say they hate you or the first time they say I don’t love you anymore – but those tales do nothing in the name of preparation.  It still stings. Bad.
I remember that day in the car when he said he didn’t want to live with me. I asked him where he would like to live and he quickly responded, “Uncle Rich’s.”  So I pulled over, put the car in reverse, turned around and (pretended) to drive to his house.  (Thank God he didn’t call my bluff because no way was I actually driving all the way there.)
He asked me if I would stay there with him. No.  Would I come back later to get him? No.  And that was all it took for him to begin panicking, yelling, “I love you!  I love you!  I love you!  I want to live with you!” And of course, he never had a choice.
We turned around yet again and had a big hug as soon as we got home. I was not at all prepared for this to start so early.  I mean, middle school?  High school?  Of course! I expect those words out of a teenager. But my three-year old baby?  No way.  He mostly has such a sweet disposition with me and we have a very snuggly, lovey relationship. That wasn’t the little guy I know.
I know that he was just trying to express himself and with a small toddler vocabulary, telling me he doesn’t like me was the way he was explaining he was upset.  That was how he was saying he was unhappy. I’d love to say that was the last time he threatened to move out, but it wasn’t. There has been at least one other occasion so I can’t say my scare tactic worked, but I do know this little man is not going anywhere. Hopefully ever.

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  1. Sarah says

    Thank you for sharing! I remember saying similar things to my mom, thank goodness she didn’t believe me. I’m sure my kids will say the same to me one day. You make a good point that he was trying to express himself, and you handled it perfectly!

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  5. Julie Wood says

    My son is unique because he loves to dance! He bounces, and then shakes his head back and forth and kicks one leg! ahh I love babies! 🙂

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  10. Steven weber says

    what makes my baby unique is that he doesn’t cry – he just moans and groans like a baby dino

    groogruxking40 @ gmail dot com

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  14. Kelly D says

    My baby was unique because he did not like to sleep for very long stretches and didn’t seem to sleep much at all. He just turned 10 and he still doesn’t like to sleep!

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  20. Lisa Brown says

    When my son was a toddler, he walked early, at 10 months. I thought that was amazing and unique. He wanted to keep up with me around the house and crawling wasn’t fast enough

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  22. Natalie says

    My daughter is unique because she is fascinated with every type of animal. She loves all types of dogs and approaches any type of animal with no fear.

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  43. Birdiebee says

    My middle daughter potty-trained herself in one sitting. I had purchased a potty chair, brought it home and set it down until after dinner. My daughter went over and sat on the box. I took the potty chair out of the box and sat her on it and that was it for potty training her.

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  44. Robin says

    My two year old daughter is hilarious and whip-smart. I am five months pregnant, and she was doing the typical crawl-all-over-my-mom routine. I told her to please be careful of the baby in my tummy, to which she replied, “She not in your tummy. She in your uterus!”
    Ha!

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  45. Anne says

    You linked on your “I’m immune” page to this one as evidence that your kids don’t like you, but you only deliver a lite and temporary example of that here. So let me give you a proper example.

    I’m one of three offspring. All three of us have walked away from our parents at some point. The oldest has narcissistic tendencies and seemed to feel a birds-of-a-feather thing with my egg donor so he went back. I’ve no idea what their relationship is like now, maybe the fog cleared again? Who knows? The middle one left about 15 years ago and tried coming back twice over a span of 7 years, realised he definitely didn’t want this side of the family in his life, and left again (I don’t blame him); and I left 8 years ago. I’m still glad to be free, have no idea whether my egg or sperm donor are even still alive, and don’t feel any urgency to find out.

    Some kids, quite a lot in fact, will grow up to dislike you. It’s not something that passes after an argument. It’s a fact of life.

    Maybe tell all your little baby-mommies about that?

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