December 31, 2010
Bad Mommy: Entry 1
Brian has his Bad Daddy series off and running, and I am afraid I triggered a "Bad Mommy" moment that's just funny enough to share (unless you're 4 1/2 - in which case you'd better stop reading so you can avoid therapy).
James, my oldest (we call him Jimmy) has been going to preschool a few days a week since he was 2. When we were in St. Louis, church offered a "Parents' Day Out" program, so he went one morning a week to socialize with other children, listen to stories, do some art projects. Back in those days, we were absolutely meticulous with our care of what he brought home from school. Every piece of art was catalogued, tagged, and preserved for when he's famous. Well, actually, what we did was photograph and chuck the originals unless they were really special. Jimmy being two, well, he wasn't really sure what art was.
Fast forward to now. He's now in preschool half time - 2 full days and a morning. We're no longer all that good with the art (which is usually full-fisted scribbles with non-matching crayon colors). If something's noteworthy, I will keep it, but gone are the camera-capturing-all-things days. Gone.
In other news and from another angle, I'm an avid recycler. Old paper with a free side? It gets used for scribble/scratch paper when I'm working. Unusable paper? It goes in the recycle bin in the garage just outside the door and to the right - easily visible to a four year-old who's leaving the premises.
You saw it coming, right? Jimmy. Saw. Artwork. In. Recycle. Bin.
OOOPS!
I didn't learn of my transgression until all of us were in the car and driving to fit Jimmy for karate uniforms. Then I got from my eldest son the "I'm affecting a hurt disposition to give you a lecture" tone: "That was MY artwork. It's not YOURS. It's MINE." Something to that effect with the key words emphasized. Brian probably has the exact words down better than I do. But he kept repeating it, and then I realized what he was talking about.
We also have Jack in the car, age two. Jack functions as a Greek chorus, repeating the important nouns and verbs that Jimmy articles with punctuation. So echoing, we hear "JIMMY'S ARTWORK." "NOT YOURS" from Jack.
I am a Bad Mommy because...
1) Brian had to cover for me - explained that the artwork was mistakenly recycled (probably it wasn't - so a bit of a fib if I were to utter it)
2) When the Greek chorus sounded, I actually laughed. I stifled most of it, but Jack just functions in that echo sort of way to really punctuate the situation.
3) I'll probably do it again (but shred it first).
The appropriate response therefore is to be contrite and ask everyone else how you handle the artwork. If we were to keep it all, we'd be awash in paper. I sy this is I'm looking to the left at a picture of the sun he made with yellow tissue paper stuck to the predrawn sun.
:)
hln
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