You know too much of yourself is rubbing off on your kids when while driving an imaginary car at the playground your four year old daughter shouts out of her imaginary car window "it was my right of way you cow". When I tried to berate her she said, "I'm only pretending mama, it's OK if I'm only pretending isn't it?" I've realised that parenting is an interesting balance between trying to create perfect clones of yourself and trying to ensure that your kids turn out nothing like you! I am currently trying to train my kids military style to be on time for school and naps. As I mentioned in my top 10, what I have in mind is the Sound of Music ...before Julie Andrews turned up and ruined it all. I can frequently be heard reminding my children that when we're in a hurry all I want is silence and obedience! The reason being purely due to my own shortcomings. As women we are supposed to be great at multitasking, but I find that post-kids I am unable to operate with their incessant noise in the background. In fact, I seem to need complete silence to achieve anything ...and this is not withstanding having trained myself to do my homework in front of TV (I actually convinced my poor deluded mother that I worked better that way!) Can you believe she fell for that? I can't. In hindsight, I obviously realise that the reason I was often up till midnight doing my homework is because I was so utterly distracted by the TV. How my mother did not realise this is beyond me. But I digress. So the reason I insist on silence and obedience is that if I don't I will invariably forget what I'm meant to be doing and leave half the things I need behind me. Unfortunately, I almost never get the 'Silence' and 'Obedience' I so desperately crave, so I'm reduced to a neurotic shouting mess every school morning, undoubtedly leaving the neighbours with a very bad impression of my parenting skills!
By Mummy Dearest
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