A good friend of mine was really, really frustrated recently. A local Burbank kid had made the newspapers...but not in a good way.
"Why don't people just tell their kids NO!?" She asked.
She has a point. "No" doesn't seem to be a popular concept in current parenting handbooks.
Later, I was skimming a local gal's blog. We all have our niches. Some are mommy blogs, some political, some humor, some art....
So this was a mommy blog, grown up.
It was well put together. Had a nice visual presentation. She focused on the positives in her life and her current passion. But it was rather entertaining in a sense that she probably hadn't intended.
I know her. She is a decent enough woman but her kids are a bit of a handful. The pictures on the blog are of the kids I know...
The descriptions are...well, the kind of descriptions that only a mother, blind to the faults of those children, could provide. She is one of those mothers that, the moment one of her progeny gets into trouble, immediately starts her rebuttal sentence with, "Not my kid!"
Quite frankly, to the rest of us, the boy is looking like a future reform school candidate and the oldest girls seem to be vying for roles on the next remake of "Mean Girls."
But I don't want to mess with her illusions.
I just hope she gets it all worked out before they leave home and inflict themselves on the rest of us.
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