Some Serious Talk
Perhaps she's just at "that age", but Miss K has been a lot obstinate this week. Doesn't want to go to school, doesn't want to talk on the phone, eat dinner, take a bath.. blah blah blah.
This weekend was a little out of the ordinary, in that we had some "Daddy time" for 3 days in a row. Maybe she's had trouble adjusting back, I'm not sure. But this morning we were eating breakfast and she told me that she misses Daddy. I said "I miss him sometimes, too, but we're much happier living in different houses. We're not so grumpy this way."
She got a real serious look on her face. "Are you mad at Daddy, is that why you were grumpy together?" I told her no, just some times adults figure out that they aren't best friends after all and they don't belong together... but that it doesn't apply to children and she will always belong to both me AND Daddy. I told her we're very lucky - she has two parents that love her very much and she has TWO homes full of love.
She processed that for a minute and for the rest of the morning was relatively easy to get along with.
When she's acting up, it's easy to start losing my patience - but I know her, and there is usually a really good reason for it. Gosh I love that little girl.
This weekend was a little out of the ordinary, in that we had some "Daddy time" for 3 days in a row. Maybe she's had trouble adjusting back, I'm not sure. But this morning we were eating breakfast and she told me that she misses Daddy. I said "I miss him sometimes, too, but we're much happier living in different houses. We're not so grumpy this way."
She got a real serious look on her face. "Are you mad at Daddy, is that why you were grumpy together?" I told her no, just some times adults figure out that they aren't best friends after all and they don't belong together... but that it doesn't apply to children and she will always belong to both me AND Daddy. I told her we're very lucky - she has two parents that love her very much and she has TWO homes full of love.
She processed that for a minute and for the rest of the morning was relatively easy to get along with.
When she's acting up, it's easy to start losing my patience - but I know her, and there is usually a really good reason for it. Gosh I love that little girl.
posted by AlmstHvn @ 11:42 AM
2 Comments:
At 5:10 PM,
dehawkinz said…
This makes me appreciate just how lucky I am that my parents managed to stay together during my childhood - there have been times when I wondered why they stayed together, but they did and I benefitted no doubt about that. I don't think that it is always right for parents to stay together "for the childrens sake" as sometimes it is best for all concerned if the parents are not together.
However, it sounds like Katie is still a fairly well-adjusted little girl, so I would not worry too much. Hey I went through all those phases at some point LOL
Blessings
At 1:50 PM,
Anonymous said…
Thank you very much. I needed to read this.
Daddy
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