Reason #162 – I like other kids better than mine
Reason #162 – I like other kids better than mine
May 20I just spent a couple of hours playing with a gorgeous 4-year-old child. He showed me his books (Wall-E and a monster book) and his robot (a Dalek, no less!) I gave him a thorough medical with his doctor’s kit (blood pressure OK, heartbeat regular, ears a little grimy but still decent, tonsils perfect) and he gave my arm an overhaul with his tool kit: drill, saw and hammer. We discussed bagels, cherries, and pepperoni pizza.
And I had a lot of fun.
The two previous days I spent a lot of time with a friend and her two boys, the youngest of which is about 5 months old and too gorgeous for words. Like the Dane mockingly says, I “got my baby on”: I petted, burped, carried, soothed, rocked, smelled and generally swooned over the lil guy for hours. His mom had to pry him out of my hands a couple of times to breastfeed him, but other than that he was mine for the duration, and I loved it.
Loved it.
So why is it that after 10 minutes with C I am ready to pack him in a cardboard box and sell him on Craigslist?
Where is the love???
Brilliant blog, I love reading your different posts. This one made me chuckle because of how true it is. I always think other kids are more polite than my own but I think that kids are always going to be more polite towards other kids’ mums than their own. One you will have to get used to I think.
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Please don’t tell me you were thinking of throwing him into the traffic below! (as always, adorable photo)
It would ruin his precious, blessed face- and not to mention, any chance of profiting from his future modeling career!
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Yours is a toddler; wait until you can have a real conversation with him. My brother was a pain in the proverbial at home and all my mother’s friends thought he was extremely charming. And, my mother spoiled him rotten but she just couldn’t see it. He looked like her and that was one reason.
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ofthesea Reply:
June 2nd, 2011 at 8:23 am
Arh. I hope I don’t spoil him rotten! Mommy-vision is anything but 20/20!
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Other kids always behave…our kids know us too well and figure eh, she will always love me…even if I torture her….
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No worries, I love all kids better than my own… probably because I have to wash their laundry, clean their poop, feed them all the time, get vomited on, bath them, clean up after them 24-7…and mostly because mine talk back lol
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ofthesea Reply:
May 20th, 2011 at 3:56 pm
All good points!
Still… I wish i could have fun with my own kid for a couple of hours instead of being bored stupid after 5 minutes of “no! stop it! come here! Argh!”
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Because, as my own parents say about their grandchildren, it’s a lot nicer when you can give the kid back.
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ofthesea Reply:
May 20th, 2011 at 2:57 pm
Also, they are nicer, smarter and more polite than mine.
My one consolation is that none are cuter.
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