Am I wrong ? August 17, 2008

Long time ago, when I was not a mother yet, I was not enough patient with children. I would be mad if they were doing something that was not a "proper" thing to do. I thought I was being strict. But I couldn't understand that a lot of things were very proper to do for little kids !

Now, being a mother of two super active and smart 28 months old boys, I understand that kids need to explore a lot of things around them. Things that are not new for us at all, can be very interesting for kids to discover. I don't remember in which book I read that toddlers are like cavemen ! Should we expect a caveman to sit at the table and eat like us ? Should we expect a caveman to just sit on the couch crossing his legs ? Or even worse, expecting toddlers to be like brainless robots and repeat- please & thank you - to us ? I think that's just being impatient to not let a child being a child or even worse, it is being lazy to not want to sit and talk with a child to help him understand why we don't like what he is doing. We should give more respect to our children and do more than what we do for our pets ! Am I really wrong ?

I really don't feel comfortable to go to places that don't have enough respect for my children and act towards them like they are just puppies which need to learn! I am really going to rethink about where I should take my children. I know it is not a very easy decision to make but it really hurts me to see how some people are narrow minded about who a child is !