Peaceful Dinner

Last night the Mother of the three year old in the house finally went back to her second job. She hasn't been there for 5 weeks. So because of her not being here last night we had a very peaceful dinner. There were no arguments about him eating or telling him to focus and quit playing in his food. He sat there very quietly and ate his entire plate of food. Which for a three year old was a good size plate. Plus he took extra on a couple of things. But when the Mother is here there is screaming, crying and throwing of the silverware across the table and I don't mean from the 3 year old I mean all of this is coming from the Mother. The other night she got so mad at him that she threw his fork across the table and just about punctured a major appendage belonging to Jill. I really don't understand it but when she is gone he is not a huge problem like he is when she is home. Thankfully she will be working again this evening for dinner.