It can be wonderful as a parent when we see traits of ourselves in our kids. Not things that we've taught, but an innate character trait, that's just there. There are times however, when we cringe when we see these traits.
Right now I'm on the fence about my five year old. Do I cringe, or am I happy? Either way, for now, I'm just laughing.
As mentioned a few days ago, we have some sickies here in the house. Being people who always like to keep tabs on these sorts of things we have three different digital thermometers in the house, and when we take temperature we sometimes "check it" on all of them. (we also have a few outdoor thermometers, so it seems to be a theme here). So two kids right now have fever. The a fore mentioned five year old and the fifteen year old.
Th fifteen year old is fine, and takes Advil as needed, lays on the couch, sleeps and drinks lots of fluid. The five year old seems to think it's a competition, and is OBSESSING about the numbers. Every time we take her temperature she HAS to know what the older one had, and which is higher.
So much so, that when she recently registered 103, she didn't want to take any medicine (Advil/MotrinTylenol), so that she wouldn't lose her HIGH FEVER status. I think she's crazy.
Then I think about her father. He is both highly competitive, and totally a numbers person. Remember the thermometers? Though to be fair, that's a lot of me, but it's in my DNA, but that's just knowing the numbers, it's not about WHO HAS THE HIGHEST!!!!
She's slowly coming around to the idea that she was given Tylenol, but within 10 minutes she asked me to take it again, just to see what it's up to. It helped that the older one already took Advil and had no fever.
Like her father. They're both nuts.
1 comment:
I love this!
In my family, it's not even so much the need to be the best, but if you're gonna play, you should have the self respect to "play to win".
Good for her!!!!
... and refuah sheleima {grin}
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