Flashback weird parent moment for me this morning!

[redders_60]

This morning my daughter was grumpy & whiny. Complained there were no Cornflakes; So I suggested she just eat the Rice Bubbles or other cereals there. If she didn't like the selection she could make toast. 

She then complained she was tired; So I suggested that perhaps if she went to bed at a reasonable time, she wouldn't feel so tired. She continued moaning over her Rice Bubbles. 

I finally had enough & told her to shut up & eat her breakfast or she would be late for school!

Right now you are thinking I'm a horrible Mum? 

Her smug reply to my late for school comment was:- "I'm allowed to be late for school; I'm the teacher!" She is!

[lind9650]

This is priceless and real.

Similar thing happened to my Granddaughter, only it was my Great-granddaughter that told her Teacher mother that they will be late for School.

I treasure such incidents and write them into my journal so the family can reminice and laugh one day when I'm gone.

Erica

[davidc4430]

you forgot the line

'i dont wanna go to school, none of the kids in my class like me'

pretty sure this ones in the jokes thread.

[redders_60]

Hi Erica! It was just such a strange moment in time that I had to share It! & yes she is a teacher.

Years back my 3 girls would be difficult over breakfast. I often found myself resorting to the same old parental responses - but had nothing to say over her teacher reply!  It really happened this morning!

[redders_60]

Hi David; Actually the kids love her; She was just having a bad morning & it lead me to think of some 20 years ago when every breakfast was like the one I described today!

[lyndal1838]

Kids never change....I used to have similar exchanges with my girls 40 years ago.

[ten*teeny*tiny*toes]

But isn't it funny that no-one teaches kids to stir and mix the ice-cream and choclolate topping.

Yet they ALL do it 😀

[lyndal1838]

Once they go to school there is a secret underground network that makes sure ALL children know what will annoy their parents.

I learned this from my grandmother who was a teacher at the school I went to....my mother always seemed to know what I would get up to next and it was many years before my grandmother came clean (not until I was a mother myself):smileywink:

[lurker172602]

And every kid just knows that the correct response, when parents mention the starving children in [wherever], is to "pack it up and post it to them".

[redders_60]

Yes I had a similar response to that line myself - At the time Somalia was in a drought crisis. The same daughter mentioned above said " Well give it Abdullahi then!""

The boy mentioned was new to Australia & the only word he knew at that time was "No" ( I was volunteering as a reading helper way back then) & so knew the boy quite well. He was small & skinny, as were his elder siblings. A lovely boy; But no English language.

As an aside - Many years later my youngest daughter met Abdulllahi @ a Uni event & he reminded her of how he taught her to tie her shoelaces!  This was something my youngest girl couldn't do! But the boy with no English managed to teach her where no-one else could!

They had changed over the years; but recognised each other!