What does it say about my five-year-old's priorities that he's figured out how to use the remote control, and yet still cannot tie his own shoes?Today after school, AJ informed me, "You better hurry up and teach me how to tie my shoes."
"Excuse me?" I asked. "How about if you hurry up and learn how to tie your shoes."
"Mrs. Boese says after Christmas she's not tying my shoes anymore."
This wasn't the only conversation that made me question my parenting skills. AJ had the choice between two Christmas specials on TV: A Charlie Brown Christmas or A Johnny Bravo Christmas. And he chose Johnny Bravo.
Where did I go wrong?
Not that it matters which show he watched. He pays more attention to the commercials anyway. Tonight he called to me from the living room, "Mom, can we go back to Target some day?"
"Probably. Why?"
"Because they have Ov Gloves. And we could get one for our fireplace."
"What's an Ov Glove?"
"We need it for our fireplace, so, like, Dad could wear it and fix the fireplace."
I explained that we have a gas fireplace, so whatever this amazing product is, we probably don't need it. Secretly, I was just happy that my little sponge thinks that if anything ever does go wrong with the fireplace, it'll be Dad's job to fix it.
You asked..... I guess we're "old fashioned" but none of this surprises us. In fact we've predicted it. Take all of the electronic toys/phones out of the kids' hands, and they might have time to learn to tie shoes, and be interested in other things than commercials.
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