If you are a parent you maybe able to relate to this, if you are a new parent (Cheb & Geordie), take note, if you are lets say a part of the way there (pregnant) then also take note. And finally if you aren’t a parent well I hope you enjoy reading this.
These children are geniuses in disguise. When you want them to remember the basics like, make their bed when they get out of it, pick up their toys when they have finished, put their dirty clothes in the hamper, that sort of thing. They never remember. You have to keep reminding them over and over and over. I think the only thing that could be done is to burn a CD of all the phrases you want on them.
E.g., please make your bed, please pick up your toys, please put your laundry in the hamper, please do your homework, please don’t run in the house.
Then you could add in the responses that you say over and over when asked why
E.g. Because I am your Mother/Father and I have asked you to nicely, Because it would really help me if you could help too, Please it won’t take you long, Don’t make me yell at you, Just wait till your mother/father comes home form work.
Then of course you could have the responses you would say when everything had been completed.
E.g. Thank you for helping me, see I told you it wouldn’t take long, See now you do it after I have yelled at you if only you would just do it before I have to start yelling. Thank you for doing that with out me asking you to.
Ahhh the frustrations, gee I wonder if I could make any money with this idea. Okay so I have gotten off track a bit.
So down here in my corner of the world we have school holidays, so the little cherubs wake up this morning, looking all refreshed and ready to start a new day, and boy don’t they look adorable while they are still half asleep (remember disguise). I get up from the computer to start on the morning breakfast. I grab the bowls and the three cereals (the healthy one, the not so healthy but still good one, and the plain old boring type). I get the spoons and glasses for juice. The plates for the toast, the toaster, the bread, butter and spread for the toast, then I ask.
Miss 9 what cereal would you like for breakfast, no answer, and then I hear whispering between Miss 9 and Mr 5. Sticking my head around the corner of the kitchen I ask again what cereal would you like.
As proud as punch Mr 5 looks at me and says scrambled eggs. I look at him standing there, chest puffed out and very proud of himself, I look over at Miss 9 sitting in the corner of the couch giggling.
With a puzzled look on my face I say that there is no cooked breakfast during the week only when dad is home on the weekend. Mr 5 then said do remember such and such morning, you promised that we could have scrambled eggs for breakfast on the school holidays.
Well bowl me over with a feather, not only can I not remember what we had for dinner last night, you are now asking me to remember a conversation that I had with you over three weeks ago.
My response of course is no you are wrong, with that Miss 9 runs up to her bedroom comes down with her diary and points out said day in question. I look at them closely, look at the diary once more. And try one more push to get cereal as the preferred breakfast choice.
Well I won’t tell you won that battle, but let’s just say I now write
this post after finishing cleaning the pot that the
scrambled eggs got cooked in.
So my question for the week (seeing how day is already in use), Why is it that children remember something you said 3 weeks ago, but not the same thing every single day.
As I said 4ft geniuses in disguise.
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