My two year old daughter loves playgroups, stay and plays or whatever you call them. I do not. I love her though so I will occasionally make the sacrifice as the hours I work mean these are the small hours I can spend with her and my son who probably doesn't care about staying or playing much prefering to chew anything he's not supposed to have which is considered a developmental stage of an eight month old. So on this day I decided to take them to a stay and play group which is run by members of a nursery two of my daughters have been to. Now I don't like children. I know I have four, and I love them but outside of this children are just annoyances who may or may not do something I probably won't be able to tell them off for as I'm not their dad and they've been raised wrong.
You quite often see parents ESPECIALLY at stay and plays talking about styles of parenting. There are no "styles" your kid is either a menace or well behaved and 9/10 times this is solely down to whether parents raised them right or wrong. If you did it right your children will revere and respect you if not they will dismiss your requests and do what they want....Snatch, bully, get fat, break things that aren't theirs, murder.... So it never ceases to amaze me that these future murderers are always cooed over by their mothers at these things. I'm sat nicely reading a book with my son and daughter and some snotball toe-rag waddles up turning pages and trying to pull the book from me whilst his mother who was only just bragging how fantastic he was almost whispers "no leave that one look at this!" he of course does nothing to acknowledges such requests. With retrospect I should have asked my daughter to slide of the chair creep behind him and drop him with a kidney punch.
But then it would be I potentially raising a murderer although a cool assassin type with a code of honour not some serial monster so I'd still have done a better job.
I don't brag about my children's abilities, I have high expectations of them and they are beautiful, as their father you'd expect this and it's something I reserve discussing with my wife or my children, if anyone outside remarks these things of my children I'll simply thank them. I cant stand people who enforce their childs ability or looks on others because the truth is most the time they're not stating facts, just their own feelings as parents your kid just looks like a kid to everybody else and they're most likely not the best in the world at anything so appreciate who they are rather than how best you can vicariously project. Another bug bear of mine is people entering their child in "Cutest this ..." or "Face of that..." and requesting everyone on Facebook vote for them. If you have to ask for votes not only is your child not the cutest but you're a mother who everyone hates because you keep asking everyone to vote for your stupid, average looking kid every week!
Did I say I don't like playgroups?
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