Rules

One of the things I have struggled with since Nick left is getting comfortable with being the only parent that is disclipling Zachary. I have been trying to figure out what works best for us. Zachary argues with me, on everything. So I have started telling him that I am the Mom and I make the rules which seems to be doing the trick. Before Nick left, we started having Family Movie Nights on Friday nights. It was a time for the 3 of us to spend together before Nick left. I decided to keep the tradition up after Nick left. I want routine and as much normalcy as possible for Zachary during this deployment. So since we are going to be going out of town and won't be here on Friday night, I asked Zachary if he wanted to have movie night on Thursday this week. He said yes. He went to see "UP" with his daycare today, as part of the summer camp program as his daycare. He saw the popcorn and candy display at the theater. He asked me if we could have popcorn with the movie tomorrow. I told him yes but only after we ate dinner. He agreed. Before he went to bed, he said he was excited about having popcorn for dinner tomorrow night. I told him that we were not having popcorn for dinner. He said, and I quote "Well Mom, you make the rules so we could have popcorn for dinner. You make the rules." While I'm glad he understands how I want it to work, should I be worried too??