Getting Real

One thing that annoys me the most is when people act like their lives, or their children are perfect. I also don't think it is in good taste to share how rotten everything is either. Let me start by saying that I love and adore my kids, but they are real children and do naughty things...often. I was thinking about this as I had a friend telling me how wonderful and perfect her son is. I don't know what my problem is, but I feel I have to balance things out and tell her how rotten Charlie was the other day. We call Charlie our angry, little black child, because his skin has a beautiful darker tone to it, and he has anger management issues. Honestly, I try to avoid eye contact with his school teacher when I pick him up, because I am afraid she will tell me about his bad behavior. I prefer ignorance on most days. The other day we were leaving the gym, he was walking out with his shoes on the wrong feet and was in pain as he walked. I told him to change his shoes, he refused, and I was too tired to fight that battle, so I let him walk to the car like that. When we got home, he took off his shoes, and we discovered he had stashed a couple of toys from the gym in his shoes. That is when I realized he was a total thief! Yesterday at preschool he took another kid's money and put it in his pocket. When I asked him why he took it, he said he wanted to buy something at the snackbar at baseball. Well, at least he knows what he wants, hopefully we can instill a bit more honesty in him.

Now, I understand that when us parents are bragging about our children, it is just because we are proud. I am very proud of my boys, they are good kids, but they find ways to test my love for them quite a bit!