Cue the Alice Cooper
Because in 2 1/2 hours "school's out for summer".
The Child and I have been having a lot of conversations about the organizational skills she needs to develop over the summer. (Ok, I've been talking and she's been nodding her head with annoyance). She'll have nearly 3 months to practise as she doesn't go back until the second week of September.
Meanwhile, I'm the one who really has to be organized. My day's are, on average, free flowing. I get a lot done but at my own discretion. If I'm going to keep up with my projects and impart significant lessons in how to be more organized and focused I'll have to model it.
I just hate that part of parenting.
cobbled together by Moi at 7:32 AM
6 Comments:
No joke. That modeling and good example thing bites. The other day Boy1 totally yelled at Boy2. When admonished by yours truly he said yeah but you do it. Ouch. I expect him to clean his room while the rest of the house is, well, um, fluttering.
I once asked my mom why she didn't have to clean her room while I had to clean mine every day. She said "because I said so," and then she made me also sweep the kitchen floor.
I love Alice Cooper.
The day school lets out for summer....ahh.
That was some freedom, wasn't it?
As adults, we busy ourselves through lives waiting and working for just five days away from our hectic schedules, and we usually wind up somewhere with mosquitoes.
Lol, I have soo made the kids clean their rooms before when mine was no where near so. I've been lucky so far though and haven't been asked the question jpdc asked his mother.
my mom made me do things around the house and then she went back and re-did them because i never could do anything right. i'll never forget the afternoon she came in and pulled every single towel we owned out of the linen closet because i hadn't folded them right...
i'm sure anything you come up with, lorraine... will be a heck of a lot better than that...
You people just make me laugh and laugh and laugh.
I swore I'd never say "Because I said so". And maybe I don't use it quite as often as my parents did but now I get it.
I will say that my room is always cleaner than The Child's, as is the rest of the house. THAT I can model. I would, however, NEVER go back and redo. As Flylady says, "Housework done imperfectly still blesses your family". Amy, I'm sorry for the linen closet incident.
JP, I would like, one day, to shake your mother's hand. And then sing something from Alice Cooper loudly, in her bionic ear.
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