Some interesting ones I've encountered recently..."My mommy likes to drink wine!" and "Daddy makes Mommy cry."
Your kids have ears. They can hear. They know when you're fighting, they know when you're stressed, and they see how you handle things. They then emulate that, and like to copy some of your favourite phrases to yell at them in the privacy of your home. One of my kids yelled "You're straining my life!!!" at a friend she didn't want to share with. The same told her friend she "can't come over my house unless you have money." I chimed in and said "but I don't have any money," to which another said "go to your mommy and say 'can I please have some money?" The latter child has an older sister, guess where she got that phrase from!
Today, a parent, let's call her the Brady bunch momma (yes, she has eight kids, all her own) picked her child up around 2pm to take the kid to the dentist. Then, she had the nerve to BRING HER BACK. Once the afternoon hits, and children are waking up for nap, they are going HOME, and as numbers get low things shift and accommodations are made. There is NO reason to bring your child BACK to the daycare in the middle of the afternoon, it's just ridiculous.
And that brings me to another point. If you have more than one child, just take them all with you when you do things (except the special day with mama things). Child #1 WILL see you picking up child #2 and it's incredibly upsetting for them to see you leave without them a SECOND time in a single day. It gets hard for us to explain that their own mother/father cannot handle the brood they produced so someone always gets left out. Here's a helpful tip...STOP HAVING KIDS if you can't handle your entire family.
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