A little advice

Let me tell you how much I “love” getting parenting advice from my sister … It’s not that I won’t listen quietly to her  opinion, I just may not always agree with it and heaven help me if I don’t.  Ironically, the very things SS picks out about me are the same things she does. When she does it, of course,  it is the “appropriate” way in which to act or respond.  A little introspection please!

I like my sister, she is smart, funny, beautiful and generous. She is determined and as a result has succeeded in her career. She is a single mother to a great kid.  I wish she would just enjoy her life and stop trying to get everyone to live their life like her because SS’s life is fine for her but doesn’t work for me.

The mister and I are well aware of our failings as a parents, we are rather lenient on somethings and ridiculously uptight about stupid stuff. However, our kid is funny, intelligent, creative, athletic, friendly and an all around good guy – so we can’t be screwing up that bad. Is he a momma’s boy? Absolutely, but so is his dad. Does he need to realize the world doesn’t revolve around him? Sure — but as we are his world at this time, it does in fact revolve around him.  He has a great deal of self confidence (or over inflated ego depending on your perspective) — humility on the other hand is a work in progress.

My son and my nephew fight quite a bit, they seem more like brothers than cousins. One pokes at the other, the other tattles on the one. Over and over and over. I am unsure why the one pokes and why the other can’t just suck it up and ignore the one. I suppose my sister and I were the same. Okay, I know my sister and I were the same. I would poke and she would beat the crap out of me. Now that the nephew is the poker, I don’t think telling my son to beat the crap out of him is the answer, though it might work. *Note: I am not truly condoning violence as an option.

Moron, butthead, loser — I want to say so what, they are words without meaning, they are used in the wrong context and therefore inaccurate. Well maybe butthead applies anywhere, who knows. A young boy does not get it though, everything is absolutely literal. He is an straight A French Immerion student; he plays AAA rep sports; he has a boat load of friends;  he has a hilarious sense of humour;  he is a tall good looking kid: yet these things never come to mind when someone calls him a name. To quote Julia Robert’s character in “Pretty Woman (oh come on you’ve seen it too), “The bad stuff is easier to believe.”

You’re great and we all know it – so snap out of it buttercup and so will your dad and I.

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