Today, I see the parent/child relationship as a game of cat and mouse. You watch them, they learn the right moves, you pounce on them and they escape. Just when you are in the middle of that "most valuable lesson" they say something to stop you in your tracks!
I was thinking back a few years ago....We had just paid a decent amount of money to have our hall and stairway rewallpapered. I had waited so long that I was bursting with joy at its completion. It was beautiful....clean and new! The very same day, as I came around the corner of the banister, to walk upstairs....There she was! My beautiful little two year old writing on my new wallpaper with markers. Acting as most mothers would, I took a deep breathe and yelled at the top of my lungs for her to stop. Once I was able to compose myself, I walked up to where she was and sat her down on the stair....this was going to be great....This would be a perfect learning moment. I started to explain to my beautiful two year old that we do not write on the walls...that wallpaper is expensive.....that mommy was very upset with her actions....that markers were for paper only!
She looked up at me in the middle of my "life lesson" and said, "I know markers are for paper...you told me this was called wallpaper!"
And there it was, with one tiny sentence, I was stopped dead in my tracks. The life lesson was lost and I was left to wash the marker off my wall.
Daughter 1 .... Mother 0
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