Private Parts

It's amazing how my children's' behavior and mood affects my daily frame of mind. If the younger one is having a rough time, misbehaving or being just generally difficult, or if the older one is cranky and screeching, my day is shot. I am a bag of nerves. However, on the flip side, if everything is good, I'm fine. I keep on telling myself I've got to shake this habit, because it's not a good recipe for mental contentedness. But, this week, so far, I've been OK because my kids have been OK.

The little one has been doing really well. No complaints from teacher, well behaved, working his 'program' (in child-speak this is the proverbial star chart incentive program, not Alcoholics Anonymous). Teacher said he was doing great today, listening well, participating in class, all the things that make a mother swell with pride - until he pulled his pants down at another kid. Well, I just laughed at that one. That's just him being a knucklehead which is one of the few things about him that actually doesn't worry me. I said this to teacher, who smiled and agreed (thank God she has a bit of a sense of humor about it all, though she seemed to take the incident a little more seriously then I did). Teacher said he was actually very honest about it too. She asked him "Did you pull down your pants at so-and-so?" And he said "Yes. I did". She asked "Why did you do that?" He said "I don't know, I just did it". He's not a flasher, he's just 5.

Let's just hope that for rest of the week he can keep himself contained - in all ways.