I did it again!!!! Best Blog of the day award for today...How cool..Thanks again guys...
Well, we went out today (the kids and myself), with a friend of mine that has 2 kids (8 & 5 yrs ).
I thought for sure, that because she has kids, that we were gonna have a good time. We tried to be kid friendly, so we initially took them to a park. What a disaster that turned out to be (I really hope she doesn't read my blog ). ( Great, now I feel bad because I'm talking/writing bad about her now). Anyway, here we are at this park, I've got 4 kids with me and her 2. Well, my kids are of course, tearing up the park. No regards for nothing but fun. Well, here she is dictating every move her poor kids were doing. " No, don't play in that dirt. " No, don't play in that sand box". "No, don't touch the swing, it has germs". Ok, so at this point I just wanted to ingest some bleach, she wouldn't shut up. " Go wipe your hands on the wipeys". "Look at your hair, it's a mess". Than she turned to me and said " I don't know how you can just let your kids roam around in the park and do whatever they want." "Look at them, they're pigstyes". My answer was pretty simple, "I know, but they're having fun , aren't they"? I think because she is a friend of mine, that I didn't really say anything snotty to her, but I think she saw my example and hopefully utilized it a little. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm the furthest thing from a perfect parent , nor do I portray myself as being one. What I do know is that kids are kids for a reason. So they can have no disregard to anything. So they can have fun and get dirty. So they can remain carefree and innocent for those few seldom years.
There
are so many things in this world that one has to worry about. Letting
my kids have fun at a dirty park isn't one of them. Let 'em have fun.