‘Mom drove into a pole and then I got a Happy Meal’

When you feel free to tell a small excuse to save your own skin, but your child is an open book, you sometimes stand with a blush of shame.

Musetta (38), mother of daughter Nura (15), son Julyan (13), son Taegan (11) and daughter Ruan Auréli (4):

“Together with Julyan, who was seven at the time, I was out on our mom-son day. In the morning I accidentally drove my car into a pole. I was shocked, but luckily there was nothing to see.

“I didn’t feel like commenting at home, so I bribed Julyan”

I didn’t feel like commenting at home, because stupid things like that happen to me all the time, so I bribed Julyan: if he didn’t say anything to Dad, I’d pass McDonald’s on the way back. Well, he saw that.

But we hadn’t even crossed the threshold when he called out to my husband: ‘Mama drove into a bollard and if I kept my mouth shut we would go to McDonald’s. I chose a Happy Meal.’”

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Big mouth

Suzan (38), mother of son Wouter (12):

“It’s not allowed, but I do it now and then: just read or write an app in the car. I was literally two hundred yards from home, on a quiet back country road, texting my boyfriend that I was coming. So I didn’t see the police driving behind me.

“From the backseat he shouted: ‘Not true, you always do this!’”

I was put aside, I had thrown my phone on the floor of the passenger seat in a panic. The agent wasn’t about to admit, “Sorry, sorry, I really never do this,” I lied.

Wouter was completely tense behind me, he was about eight years old at the time. ‘Oh!’ he cried. “You always do this!” I immediately got a ticket. Well, I really learned from it. Namely: don’t trust your children for a meter.”

This article was previously published in Kek Mama.

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