"Because I'm the mommy, that's why." It no longer holds water. Kids are being born smarter now-a-days that they were even 10 years ago. I have 5 kids, my 11 year old wasn't sitting up until he was 7-8 months old. My 5th child was sitting up at 4 months old. They're getting brighter. That isn't to say my oldest isn't bright. On the contrary, he sucks in everything you say, records it in his database brain and holds it for future dates to use against you or in his favor. I can't even remember what I ate for dinner last night.
Of course, it is totally a "kid" thing. I remember my mom getting FAKE fingernails. That wasn't a very trendy thing to do when I was a kid, so I told everyone we met, strangers and friends, alike. Not cause I wanted her to look like a fake-fingernail-bearer, but because it was SO cool what they could do with fingernails back then! Well, I now know when she showed me the underside of her "real" fingernails that there was no secondary nail growing that she was just trying to shut me up. I couldn't prove it, because, after all, there was no secondary nail growing under that 2-inch thick fingernail. But I didn't defy my mother vocally about her fake fingernails any more. Now that I hit the magical age in finger-nail growth - where overnight my nails got stronger and longer, I have to find different ways of entertaining my children around guests so that they don't somehow "shock" the stranger by telling them what isn't already obvious, "My mom has a zit right next to her nose, and if you squeeze it from both sides, white stuff comes out." Was there such things as zits when I was 6?
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