‘Again I had to call his mother to say ‘sorry’

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Every month a mother talks about the moment in motherhood when things went completely wrong.

Abigail (33), mother of James (9):

“With a kid who doesn’t like sweets and naturally prefers gnawing raw carrots and cucumbers to licking a lollipop, I sometimes forget to buy a treat for playdates. “Mom, can we have a piece of candy?” then asks James for form, stoked by his boyfriend he brought home. So stupid if you only have a dry rice cake to offer, so I now have standard handout bags at home.

Without limit

Still, things sometimes go wrong with the treats. Last December, classmate Ivar came to play. I was upstairs ironing when James called from downstairs if Ivar might have a Christmas chocolate from the advent calendar. Well, James didn’t like that anyway. Stupidly I thought of one such mini Santa Claus and forgot to pass on a limit.

Once downstairs it turned out that Ivar had opened boxes one after the other and had eaten them until December 24th. oops. I then informed his mother that he might be a bit hyper when she picked him up, because of the large amount of chocolate and sugar. Fortunately, she just laughed.

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Easter eggs

You would think that you would not hit the same stone again. Unfortunately. Even with the same child. Because of Easter I have a large stone chick on the table, full of liqueur eggs. Precisely because of the aversion to James, I didn’t think twice about removing those Easter eggs from underage visitors.

Last week I was able to call Ivar’s mother again to apologize and to warn her about perhaps a little too much cheerfulness. The boys played outside on the trampoline and Ivar had smuggled in three eggs in no time. He thought they tasted a little strange, he said when he finished them. That could be right; they were filled with berry gin and whiskey.”

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