PSP Creates Devil Child

This was a rough morning.

Ojiichan flew in from Japan last night for a visit. He brought me something I really wanted and can't find here: tiny plastic sauce containers for Sunny's lunches. Something we didn't want: he gave Sunny his used Sony PSP, which blindsided us. At least it doesn't have any games on it.

Sunny has kind of freaked out over it.

This morning, he jumped out of bed at 6AM because he heard Ojiichan puttering around in the kitchen, then got Ojiichan to show him some kind of weird dancing cat costume video on the PSP. Sunny knows his morning time is supposed to be no earlier than 7 and no later than 7:30.

When I told him he needed to go back to bed he had a crying fit. He stayed in his room for a few minutes, but there was no way he could have really gone back to sleep, so Guy and I just had to get up as well. We told him 1) that was it for the PSP today unless he came home with a good behavior mark in school 2) extra morning time means extra time to do homework after breakfast.

Sunny had ANOTHER crying fit. He told me he wasn't crying about his PSP, he was crying because he missed his foster Mom, and he was mad about his PSP. I gave him a hug and said I'm sorry you're sad, but if you're going to cry about the PSP, you can cry outside the kitchen so I can make breakfast. I just closed the kitchen door and made breakfast and let him do his thing... that is, loud dramatic crying wails punctuated by occasional Brando-esque shouts of "WHYYYYYYYYY?" and appeals to an invisible judge, "MOM'S NOT BEING VERY NICE TO ME!"

After sucking down some extra coffee, I finished a quick breakfast for all of us and also lunch for Sunny. He perked up, then had another pout when he had to do homework with Guy, but it was a minor one. Then, when we were leaving for school, he decided he didn't like his jacket, he couldn't get his jacket on, no he didn't want me to help him get it on, and then it escalated to the point where he needed another time-out, this time for back-talking, even though it almost made us late for school.

Ugh.

He'll get used to the PSP eventually, but right now it's more like the PCP.