‘My son hit a boy full on the nose’
Have you gone out of your way to make your child a sociable and open-minded being, your sweetheart makes a comment that seems to negate that whole upbringing.
Eva (43), mother of Milou (8).
“Having a nice chat with our holiday friends, we walked towards the boulevard when we passed a bridge under which the homeless had set up a few rickety tents. Our daughter looked at it with wide eyes. I thought she was impressed and might cry at the sight of such sad circumstances, in fact I was already preparing to comfort or reassure her. But none of this.
“Ooooh! So this is where the losers live!”
Loudly called Milou across the street: ‘Ooooh! So this is where the losers live!’ I was ashamed of such disdain and hissed at her that she really shouldn’t say such nasty things. To this day I don’t understand how she came to this, my husband and I never talk about other people like that. The only luck is that the passing Spaniards could not understand her anyway.”
Way too slow
Nina (37), mother of Samuel (10).
“Well, I was in a hurry and curt when I sent Samuel to get bread from the bakery. The woman who works there is rather grumpy and above all slow, so I gave Samuel the money with the instruction: “Half a brown, and a little quickly.”
After fifteen minutes he came home shaken. Startled, I asked what had happened. Had he done or said something? As it turned out, in his childish naivety, Samuel had repeated exactly my words to the baker’s wife: ‘Half a brownie, and a little quickly!’ The woman had become furious, even closing the shop for the rest of the day after Samuel’s visit. The next day I went by to explain. She couldn’t laugh about it.”
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Little Rambo
Isa (38), mother of Mees (7) and Philou (4).
“I was bullied a lot as a child. I was shy, didn’t dare bite off me and let people walk all over me. In short, I was the perfect victim. And somehow I blame my parents, because they taught me to always be nice and that you solve problems by talking. Great starting point, but with some pussies that just doesn’t work.
I’ve always told Mees to stand up for himself and hit back if someone hurts him. It became clear that he took this a little too literally when I was called to the mat by his teacher. Mees had hit a boy from his class full on the nose because this boy had not liked his treat. Mees stated that he had found that ‘painful’. I subtly explained to my little Rambo that I really didn’t mean this with my so-called parenting advice.”
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