A few weeks ago, my seven year old son and my mother had this conversation:
Son: Nana, why is that person crying?
Nana: Oh honey, sometimes people cry when they get upset. It’s OK. That’s just what people do.
Son: Um, that’s not what my mom does.
Nana: Your mom cries sometimes, I’ve seen your mom cry
Son: My mom does not cry when she gets upset.
Nana: What does she do?
Son: She argues.
Nana: Oh
Son: And if she’s really upset, she argues a lot.
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And about a week ago, my husband, son and I were sitting around eating a pizza, discussing our son’s last day of school and his big field day track race.
Son: I was in lane 6, and BK kept trying to tell me I did so well because I had a head start. I told him I was staggered.
Me (hugely impressed by my son’s obvious BRILLIANCE!): that’s right babe, you were staggered to make up for the curves
Son: I know, and I tried to tell him that. And he just kept saying “you have a head start, you have a head start” blah blah blah. UGH!
Me: Did you explain to him the whole staggering, curves, blah blah blah thing?
Son: I was trying. I told him. He just.. I don’t know… doesn’t GET it, or something.
Dad: Sometimes you just have to learn to agree to disagree kiddo.
*blink blink* from son and I
Son: But I was right, Dad.
Dad: Well, yeah, but sometimes you just have to walk away and just say “OK, you don’t agree with me, that’s OK”
*blink*
*blink*
uncomfortable silence from our side of the table
Son: I’m pretty sure Mom doesn’t just walk away…
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I know you told me about both of these on the phone, but it’s even funnier reading. That describes you better than anything else. It’s good that your cute gay son gets you so well.
June 12th, 2007 at 8:50 am
And by gay, I mean happy.
June 12th, 2007 at 9:24 am
It is freakin amazing the things kids pick up on with just watching and taking it in over their lives.
I am guessing that sums you up pretty good.
June 12th, 2007 at 9:56 am
Speaking as a guy, instead of a doorknob like usual, I think what your husband was doing was “how to instruct a 6 year old to tell somebody to fuck off without saying the word fuck.” Sometimes ignoring an idiot is the best thing to do. He was teaching the young man how to give somebody the French Wave by just demonstrating a wtf-ever attitude toward the other kid. Nothing wrong with that at all.
But I take it that is not Miss Britt’s method?
June 12th, 2007 at 10:16 am
Make that 7 year old. Now your husband is even smarter than a minute ago!
June 12th, 2007 at 10:16 am
Britt’s method involves making sure the other person knows that they’re wrong, knows why they’re wrong, and then cries themselves to sleep for the next ten years. It’s quite effective.
June 12th, 2007 at 10:18 am
See what I’m saying? Jared has no chance in this house. None!
And, at least Devin eventually walked away. If it had been Emma she might have set him on fire and then walked away.
June 12th, 2007 at 10:25 am
That is awesome.
The Dad is completely outnumbered, isn’t he?
June 12th, 2007 at 11:32 am
OMG! I can hear both of these conversations like I was a fly on the wall! LMAO
June 12th, 2007 at 11:32 am
avitable: yeah, I’m not sure if I should be proud or embarrassed.
themuttprincess: sadly, yes
RW: Oh, see, and here I thought he was just trying to pass on his passive aggressive tendencies.
avitable: pfft, so not true.
I don’t consider it a job well done unless there are IMMEDIATE tears.
Amy’s more into the lifelong scarring.
AmyD: yes, but Emma would have been able to go on with her life. Devin is tormented by the fact that some poor kid out there just doesn’t KNOW!
Peter: like a midget homosexual Puerto Rican in Iowa
Kristin: I know - sadly this is no big shocker for anyone is it?
June 12th, 2007 at 11:41 am
sounds like you got your husband whooped into shape perfectly, britt. good job!! ;)
June 12th, 2007 at 11:52 am
:boobs1:
June 12th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
What’s wrong with passive-aggressive? Honestly who can tell what women want… one minute they’re crying about a lack of spontaneity, and then when they get spontaneity they call it being passive-aggressive. There’s no justice in the world!
June 12th, 2007 at 12:58 pm
Nothing to be sad about. Stong-willed is a good way to be…..
June 12th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
I think he actually GETS women… or summin’ … well, at least for now…
June 12th, 2007 at 1:05 pm
June 12th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
This is where you should get your son on the computer to download everything possible about staggered starts, then confront the other kid with the information.
Perhaps your son can make a comment to the other kid about if he can’t read the info, maybe his mum can read it to him!
And perhaps I have just solved the mystery of why my niece and nephew are not to spend a lot of time with me unsupervised.
June 12th, 2007 at 5:25 pm
Ah those enigmas of life…
Just like we pound into children’s heads that they should never lie, but are horrified when they say something like, “Mommy that lady is fat!”
June 12th, 2007 at 6:21 pm
Mouths of babes, babe, mouths of babes.
June 12th, 2007 at 6:36 pm
Every day, in very way, you are more and more my hero.
June 12th, 2007 at 7:23 pm
*heh*
I love it when kids prove their parentage
June 12th, 2007 at 7:33 pm
Webmiztris: I do what I can
RW: I assure you I have never confused spontaneity with passive-aggressive. “I don’t care” is not spontaneous, by any stretch of the imagination.
themuttprincess: At times
DutchBitch: well, he gets his mama anyway. God help that boy when he gets married.
Maria: I don’t know, but people do it ALLL the time
Jacki: oh now that is GENIUS
Suzanne: you can not lie and whisper quietly behind someone’s back - manners are important you know! lol
Rick: yeah, no shit, lol
Mr. Fabulous: really?? can i have an altar or a shrine or a statue or something in my honor!?!?!
bluepaintred: yeah… one of those “it’s funny cuz they aren’t yours” moments, isn’t it?
June 13th, 2007 at 9:30 am
omgosh lol, that’s priceless
June 13th, 2007 at 1:37 pm