I don't even know who I am anymore

My son has been having some issues lately with temper tantrums, crying and the like everytime something doesn't go his way.  He's been through a lot lately, and I do understand that life has been rough for the kids especially, but that does not mean that I am going to accept his bad behavior as part of life.

Anyway, this afternoon, he was playing a game on my laptop and got frustrated and slammed it shut.  As a punishment, he is not allowed to play on my laptop at all for a week.  Of course, more crying ensued, but on seeing that I was not going to give in, he went about finding something else to do.

I'm thinking he has decided to just get over it and next week he'd be back to playing with his new one hour a day time limit.  Well, apparently, he did not forget, but just decided to wait a bit to try his next angle.  We were sitting down watching tv together and he asks if no laptop means no games at all?

No, I replied, you can still play the Wii and your DS, but no laptop.

He looked right at me, smiled sadly and said, "I don't even know who I am anymore!"  Then giggled and ran away.

Hahaha, good one, but you're still not getting to play on the laptop.  You'll just have to invent a new AJ.

So, perhaps a new AJ will be forthcoming.  I'll have to keep you all posted on that.