A "Hair-ied" Halloween

My 8 year old is driving me crazy.  He's gone from an organized, well behaved, and responsible boy to a, well, an airhead.  And I know it's all because of Halloween and the candy consumption.  He was up late on Halloween night, sluggish the next day and didn't do his homework.  So he waited until this morning to do it, claiming he was too tired yesterday, and then pestered me while I was going through my rushed morning routine asking for help.  That's not going to happen in the morning, which is why "You're supposed to do your homework when you get home from school."

So he gets stuck on a problem about the United States flag.  But instead of looking it up he turned on the TV.  And then he brought his breakfast into the living room.  None of this is allowed.  And worse, he left the bag of markers on the sofa.  And, he didn't finish his breakfast and actually admitted that he was "too distracted by the TV."

Ughh!  I can't wait for the candy to be gone.  I can't blame him because I'm the one who let him go door to door collecting it.  Well actually it was my husband who insisted I get into the "spirit" of the holiday, so I tried.  I can't stand the whining and begging when I've tried to portion it and/or hide it.  So this time I said the heck with it, eat it all.  Hopefully it will be gone by the end of today and I won't have to cringe from picking up wrappers.

I don't know if I'm being controlling, impatient, totally annoyed, a good parent or a bad parent.  Just make it go away!

Oh, and he did something else:  last night he cut his own hair.  He came in to show me just before bed and I had to get up and do an emergency hair cut.  It's his worst look yet.  He cut his bangs off up to his forehead, so either I shave it when we have more time or hope that once the candy is gone and the wrappers picked up I can look at him with a smile and see him for the 8 year old boy that he is.