Lovely Things Our Children Say

My 4 year old was counting in the back seat as we were driving. She stopped to ask me how old I was. I said "Mommy is 40". She then said, "Is that the last number?"

My daughter asked me why I never buy her anything for Christmas. She says "Santa does all the work. Mom you should get me something too"

Hmmmm <Smirk>

Oh and yesterday while her dad was relaxing on the couch, I was giving all the kids a bath and my daughter got mad at me and said "I like Daddy better"

>:(

My 5 year old recently asked me why I don't dress 'sexy'... First, my jaw hit the floor because she said sexy, then I asked why she asked. She said 'because you're always in sweatpants and don't wear makeup and you always look kinda dirty'... maybe because I clean my days away!? Thanks kid ;)

It also always kind of tugs at my heartstrings when the girls go on and on and on and ON about how much fun they had at their dads house... like we don't do anything fun! I love that they have a great time, but c'mon! It hurts my husband more than me, so I told them that I'm happy they had a blast, but it kind of hurts daddy's feelings a little bit, so maybe we can talk about all the fun stuff we have at home too ;)

Me: "Daughter, please pick up your clothes and especially don't leave your stuff outside as they will be ruined laying in the dirt/mud."

Daughter: "But Mommy, you can just buy me new ones!"

On the way home from the airport from our trip to Disney, that I had spent over three months planning and fundraising for (SAHM so odd jobs, coupon clipping, freelance work, anything) my 7-year-old decided she wanted to trade me in for a different mom. One who liked dogs, unlike me.

Yeah.

Yesterday I was taking my 4 year old to daycare and we were talking about my parents coming to stay and had this conversation:

Me: "well, your silly Grandpa is my Daddy"
Nora: "No, my daddy is your daddy"
me: "No, your daddy is my husband"
Nora: "But I want want to marry him when I grow up!"
Me: "well, he's already married."
Nora: "Can I marry Grandpa then?"
Me: "No, he's already married too"
Nora: "Well, who's not already married??" Me: "Brandon (our friend, he's a couple of years younger than me)"
Nora (very excitedly): "Can I marry BRANDON?"
Me: "You can ask him this weekend"
Nora: "I will!"

she's loved him since she was an infant, she will even let me put her down for bed, she would let Brandon. :-)

I told yall one of them already. My husaband stays home with the kids sometimes. My sweet baby 4 yr old told me...
"daddy is the beeeest mommy."

they get irritated that I have to work, so, the other day one was pouting.. "ah man, why do you always have to go to work." and the other one said "to buy us toys and candy and stuff" and then they were both pleased as punch and ran off to play. ungrateful jerks ;)

My daughter tried to explain to me that she should get to just play all the time and I have to clean up cause that's mommy's job to clean and cook!

oh the things that they say! I made sure she learned a lesson about what the cost of being in the family is and that her "job" is to do what mommy asks...

My husband travels a lot. When our son was about 3 my husband was home for a weekend. He asked our son to go do something and the boy said "you're not the boss of me, she is" pointing in my direction. I just about busted up laughing.

While visiting my inlaws the kids were opening and not closing the door. I told them several times to close the door. My wonderful little boy about 3 or 4 turns to everyone when the door was opened and not closed and said "close the damn door" and then everyone turned and looked at me! Geez!!

My daughter (22) called me her best friend the other day! Yay!!!

I feel these are great teachable moments. When my kindergarten son asked why I always get to be the boss and why he never gets to be the boss, I realized that this was a good opportunity for him to explore authority and obedience and that I wanted him to be grateful for those who serve him. So, I responded by saying, "Wow, you would be willing to be my boss?" He just looked up at me with a smirk and replied, "Well, yeah!"

So I said, "Gee that is so kind! You know, once you're a grown-up, people don't usually want to do that for you anymore. I would have to pay someone a lot of money to be my boss. That is so generous of you to be willing to be my boss!" I could see cogs turning in his head. :) I continued, "Well, I already have today planned out, so how about you be the boss tomorrow." The look on his face told me he was quite happy with this plan and that he was a bit surprised at how easy it was to get me to agree.

That conversation was on the way to school. When I picked him up a few hours later he seemed to have forgotten the topic, so I brought it up again. I said, "Oh, when we get home we should sit down and make a list of all the things you need to know so you can be the boss tomorrow." At first he agreed happily. But then the forehead crinkled a bit and with a sideways glance he asked, "Like what...?"

I replied, "Oh well, if you are going to be my boss you will need to know what time I need to get up, what I need to wear, what I need to eat for breakfast, what time I need to be at my class... you know, things like that." He never said another word on that topic. By the time we were home he had no interest in pursuing the subject. :D

My little guy is 25 now and is exceptionally respectful and grateful to those who serve in positions of authority. From my experience, I do feel that it is our job to teach our children to be grateful and respectful. If our job is thankless, then we have not taught our children thankfulness and appreciation. We don't teach them this so we can feel thanked, but so that they have the great joy of feeling thankful.

The only excuse is that they don't really mean it ;-) My son lately learned from his cousin (who spent 3 weeks in our house with my sister) to say: "I don't want to see you anymore in my entire life!" whenever I get "annoying" to him :-0 I then proceed to tell him that without me he'll have to do this, and that, and that again ALL BY HIMSELF and that he won't be able to go there, and there and see such and such or have this and that...well,pretty soon the ugly statement is followed by: "Mommy...I was just kidding!"

Yes, my daughter one time said to my son "Mommy is just like a waitress; she brings us whatever food we want!" It was when I was getting snacks for them them. And I thought "Wow. Really? Well, at least if I was a real waitress, I would actually be earning some money!"

:-) But I didn't get mad, I just said "Okay, if I am your waitress, then where is my money? You owe me $20!" and made it into a teasing, laughing moment.

It is definitely a teaching moment. Your daughter probably sees vacation as a day when you don't have to leave the house and do any work outside. She doesn't realize that what you do at home is "work," but just something all Moms do. So it's a good time for a discussion on how some people work outside the home and some people work inside the home. Ask her "what are all the things that Mommy does around the house?" and maybe she will realize "wow, Mommy does do a lot." And then explain to her that a vacation is a break from the work you normally do.

My daughter once asked me "Why do you make all the food and do all the dishes and Daddy never does?" I told her "That is a very good question, and you should definitely ask your Daddy about that one." :-)

Terrible, right?

My son (16) informed his father that I don't do anything. His father agreed that I never did anything when we were married. In reality, I do what I do without anyone telling me so no one notices because it just gets done. I am a single mother who works her butt off on the hot school bus and try to feed the face of my ungrateful son. The fact that my X agreed with him and then proceeded to tell me about it was a big sign of disrespect. Luckily, I don't have to deal with the X very much but I still have my son around who needs a big reality check. I won't be doing his laundry etc. anymore!!

Just the other day I told my daughter to pick up her things in the living room. She stomped around and then said "why do I have to do everything? You don't do anything!" As she said this to me I was cooking dinner, while I finished some Geology homework after which I had to vacuum the living room, serve dinner, clean the fish tank, and after I put her to bed I had to finish my English homework. I just said "if you do everything you can clean the rest of the living room, make dinner, clean up the kitchen, do the fish tank, and put away the laundry. And I will go sit down with my feet up." She got real quiet and made herself scarce. LOL

you havent seen nothin yet. HA. wait till ya have teenagers. and I have good kids.

My favorite thing right now is my oldest. We have seasons passes to the roller coaster park here. So, when I tell them we have stuff to go do through out the day, he will go ''oh, well I thought you maybe would do the roller park''. For instance, last weekend we went to Hemp Fest Tacoma. They held it at a really nice park like twenty minutes from our. They had a water thing and all sorts of fun stuff. So, after telling my son what we were doing he goes''oh, well is it a festival like are we going to the roller park?'' ....

He is not my little man anymore....I can see the kid coming in:) bitter sweet.

My younger two are still hilarious. They have their young selfish tendencies we are working through right now. but over all they are a bunch of humor filled munchkins....MY middle guy thinks he is a rockstar. He sings everything. and my youngest thinks he is a ninja..so as long as I ''HI Yah'' him back as we talk...he is a pretty happy camper:)

I know my days as being cool are limited. so I am taking everything I can get from them now:) nice or not!

My son once said " Aunt Kelli would be the best mommy" . Thanks . The aunt who visits a few times a year and brings gifts and doesn't have kids . That one was brutal .

Also, when you give up doing stuff for yourself just to entertain them and keep them happy then they get upset because they can't do something later. yes, it's a thankless job :)