Mother in Good Humor

Written by Sherri L Dodd


Children -repparttar little buggers can drain your energy, break your valuables and absolutely send you torepparttar 110292 moon sometimes. The range of trouble can go from babies with their high decibel crying to toddlers with their never-ending, cluttering curiosity to your preschooler with his gripes and whines and on to your grade-schooler with her indignant attitudes. I have not yetrepparttar 110293 privilege ofrepparttar 110294 higher ages yet, but I hear it escalates to over-sensitivity and highly dramatic meltdowns. With all this chaos, you have to wonder sometimes why we makerepparttar 110295 commitment to enter into motherhood. Whilerepparttar 110296 answer is not always immediately clear, we all know and can relate torepparttar 110297 flipside of parenthood that offers a heapin' helpin' of good ‘ole fun and laughter!

Takerepparttar 110298 innocent observations of a child. One story that comes to mind involves our two cats and my grade-schooler. While our male cat stays inside,repparttar 110299 female bolts outrepparttar 110300 door any time she getsrepparttar 110301 slightest chance, regardless of who’s in her way and how many groceries might come tumbling down from her intrusion. By day’s end, she returns after her fill of outside adventure. One night, my six-year-old noticed a change torepparttar 110302 usual ritual. Amazed, he yelled throughrepparttar 110303 house that I “come look”. Upon my entrance torepparttar 110304 room, he says “Look! Soccer is so glad to see Tasha that he is even hugging her with his legs." Yes, kitty may have been attempting fruitless amour butrepparttar 110305 lessons he taught my son on that particular night were nothing but heartfelt and loving.

Another story comes to mind from a friend. She was telling her preschooler aboutrepparttar 110306 day he was born. With great emphasis and plenty of body language she exclaimed that she struggled and struggled for hours, but then gave a mighty push and out came his head. Then, after catching her breath she pushed one final time and out camerepparttar 110307 rest of his body. Puzzledrepparttar 110308 little guy paused a moment and then inquisitively asked “…and then you put my head on my body?" Just ask any mom and there will be many examples ofrepparttar 110309 never-ending humor that moms are privy to during any given day.

Dinnertime Chatter

Written by Sue DeFiore


One ofrepparttar themes I see onrepparttar 110291 various internet boards I belong to is that children eat and run. First, whatever happened to manners. We were not allowed to leaverepparttar 110292 table without permission and unless it was an outright emergency we had to stay until everyone was done eating. Also, we used dinnertime to catch up onrepparttar 110293 day’s activities. When my dad wasn’t there, my mom would ask my sister, brother and I how our day was. Did everything go well, any problems? WE COMMUNICATED.

When my dad was home, he told us about his week and how things were inrepparttar 110294 city with our family and then we all got a chance to catch him up as to what we were doing (school, friends, after school activities). Even as we all got older, we still had to be home for Sunday dinner. It was mandatory. It was family time, my mom always tried to makerepparttar 110295 meal extra special.

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