Honest Observations
Kids.
If anyone is gonna give it to you straight, it’s gonna be your kids.
No black too black.
No white too white.
So secret safe.
No room for ego.
If your arm is jiggly… you WILL get called out.
If you have been working on the computer too much, your son might say something like,
If I were a blogger and had to be on the computer this much? I’d get screen sick. I’m serious, mom.
You don’t have to be a parent of a child. Be you friend or stranger, kids will speak what they see. Speak via the filter they see through… They’re bold like that. Innocent like that. They are literal filters. Literally… Which makes a gray adult-existence suddenly explode with clarity. And any degree of humiliation.
For example, smoking. My son and I engaged in a conversation about smoking and addiction to smoking. I could tell by his line of questioning he was trying to “get it”. Why smoking? What’s the addiction?A group of men we had recently encountered sparked our convo. Thankfully he saved the discussion for the car. I could see his wheels turning… it wasn’t making sense. And rightly so.
So. Um… What are they addicted to?
DYING???
So. My kids know smoking is bad. But I don’t make them eat their crusts. Win some, lose some.
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LOL…Crusts are so overrated anyway…*sigh*
Kids are so brutally honest. My son told me I needed to excercise, not because I was fat, but because he wanted me to be healthy. (hewas really telling me I was fat)
No kidding. This summer, I gave up dairy. Why? Oh, I don’t know. I was experimenting to see if it would make me less tired!?!
I was explaining this to a friend about 15 days into my experiment and my 8yo says, “It doesn’t work.”
Fine. Let’s go get ice cream then!
I’ve had my kids call me out on sooooo many things. Thankfully, they don’t always do it in public.
My girls have recently discovered smoking (not actually smoking themselves, but that it exists) and we’ve explained that it is a gross habit that is very bad for someone to do.
So. We went to a family picnic where some of my husband’s extended family was present. And the girlfriend of my husband’s uncle was out in the yard having a cigarette. Emily (5) came around the corner into the garage where I was standing at a full run. And on screeching to a halt in front of me, exclaimed “MOM! That lady with the green fingernails! SHE’S SMOKING!!!”
I cracked up. Emily was utterly horrified that someone she knew was SMOKING.
And then I had to explain that while, yes, it’s a bad choice to make and we wouldn’t chose it for ourselves, we mustn’t judge others for making that choice for themselves.