He’s a paragon.  When I did that it took six months for me to recognize what I’d done. ;)

LOL! Paragon isn’t the word I’d necessarily have used yesterday. But yeah, it was cool that he acknowledged that he’d been kind of rough on his old Mom.

I’m with Linkmeister only while it might have taken 6 months to recognize it, I am not sure I would have ever acknowledged it to anyone other than myself!!  Every now and again my younger son (older was just easier all around!!) would actually admit he had been rough on me and make what passed for an apology.  It was a good feeling to know that at least he recognized it...it didn’t change much and it, of course, happened again, but when they know, realize AND react, then you are on the right path!!  I like this kid of yours!!

Hey, I like this kid, too. I could do without his challenging behavior (it would be nice to be able to utter a complete sentence without an argument breaking in before the punctuation!), but I do recognize that being able to have a rational and even convivial postmortem about the hard-way-to-go moments is a positive thing. At the end of the day we’re usually on excellent terms. But getting there can be exhausting!!!