Son Complaining

I'm not there yet with my own kid, but boy do I remember driving my mom crazy saying that! She would just tell me that life wasn't fair and that I just needed to obey her and do what I was told. She basically let me have my rant, but it didn't change the fact that I still had to do whatever it was she was telling me to do. You may just have to ignore him when he says it or say something like "I'm sorry you feel that way, now please go get in the bathtub". It will pass when he realizes that you are going to stick to your guns no matter what he says.

I'm sorry you have to go through that! I should apologize to my mom for all the times I said it to her! :-)

Oh my.......I remember and sometimes still hear it out of my teens......tell him life is not always fair and that this is not about fair but that he needs a bath......stay on topic and do not let him change it........most of this will pass.......truly it will.....

my daughter went through this, and she got over it. ok, maybe not entirely but I've come to realize that she doesn't understand what "fair" really means and she doesn't mean that it isn't "fair" she means "this sucks" but doesn't have the vocabulary for that. Ignore it or tell him the truth: Life isn't fair so suck it up and do what you have to!

Sometimes I tell my daughter that it sure isn't fair that i would have to pick up her dirty tights/ shoes/ whatever and if I have to do it they'll end up in the trash. She forgets her social justice soapbox and hurries to save her belongings.

My fourth grade teacher was big on telling us that life isn't fair. We stopped saying it.

Good luck!

Tell him what's not "really" fair is for him to make all the people around him smell stinky little boys who won't take baths! LOL Ok, sorry, I know that's not what you were looking for but having two year old twin boys who will probably do this sometime in the near future, that's what I imagine myself saying to them :-)

My husband just always told our kids "the fair is where you go to get cotton candy" haha! They really didn't use that one much more after that because they realized they weren't going to get their way. Good luck to you - I think humor will help you through it!