Things I Have Learned as a Parent

I was sitting here thinking about when my youngest, who is now 10, was about 4 years old. He has always been a real cut up, and over the years we've come to expect pretty much anything to come out of his mouth. He's not rude or anything but, if he thinks it, it going to get said. Over the years, he has said things that have made me nearly fall out laughing, want to kill him, even a few that have totally shocked me. But this time was more than a shock. He managed to do something that isn't done too easily. He embarrassed me.

Well the story starts off innocently enough. I having a hysterectomy in a few days, and we were all in my husband's my bedroom packing a suite case, and going through the all the steps of preparing for a hospital stay. Our children were all there talking and asking questions. When one of them asked us what a hysterectomy was. I explained what it was by tell them that I was having my baby cradle taken out. Now my husband is a character himself that tends to say off the wall things also comes walking back into the room about this time and pops off a little remark like, "but we're keeping the playpen." Now as children might read this, I will not say what he meant with that statement. But I knew, and just ignored it.

Well this particular time that my son decided to enlighten us with his words of wisdom. It was about 6 months later and we were all sitting around the dinner table. All of my in laws, my mother, and father were over for some get together. I can't remember what the occasion was. But we all sitting there having a nice conversation, and it lead to cradles. If I recall correctly, we were talking about giving our old one to a relative. When out of nowhere, my son looks up from his plate and says, "Mommy doesn't have a cradle". My farther in law says, "yes she does son, I saw it in the back room." To which my son replies, "No she doesn't. The doctor took it out. But daddy says he left her playpen." Now while he was saying this I wanted to climb under the table, I was so embarrassed. Because it dawned on me what he was referring too. And that was the day my husband and I learned a good lesson in being parents and I'm going to close this one by tell you.

Parents to be, or parents that have small children, be careful what you say around your little ones. You never know when you just might hear it again.