So there we were in the car, heading to my parents' for a family dinner.
We were playing a silly word game, the one where you have to come up with a word that starts with the last letter of the previous word. Hey, I'm nothing if not about providing my child with abundent educational opportunities through play.
It went a bit like this:
Me: Car (I have such a great imagination, don't I?)
Flea: Ratatouille (I presume she means the movie, not the food)
Me: Elephant (getting a bit bored already)
Flea: Tremendous (I think this is Flea's favourite word in the world)
Me: Soul (half an ear on the radio, mind beginning to wander…)
Flea: Lesson
Me: Necrophilia!
Akward pause.
No, I don't know which dark recess of my mind that came from, either. Obviously, though, I dealt with it in my usual textbook positive parenting manner:
Flea: Mummy, what's neck filler?
Me: Oh, look at that squirrel!
I must confess, "Oh, look at that squirrel" is basically my standard response to any difficult parenting moment. Try it yourself – it works in pretty much any situation. Squirrels are fast and small, so if it just so happens that there isn't a squirrel nearby it should be followed up with, "In that tree, there, can you see him? Oh, he must have run away."
Flawless.
HA! I am sitting at work eating my lunch reading this post – nearly had to spit out my food and laugh out loud! Very funny… and thanks for the squirrel tip 😉
I’ll remember that for the future. Classic work missus.
Erm….where did that come from, psychologists would have a field day!
LOL-only problem is that in this country there are NO squirrels…
I nearly spat out my coke onto the screen! Thank you for being such a TREMENDOUS inspiration!
bwahahahahahahaha
Absolutely brilliant. That should be the title of your book/autobiography (fill the gap) ‘Look, there’s a Squirrel’.
You’re most welcome!
Write it down. Solid gold parenting tip, that is.
I’m trying not to think about it too deeply.
Scary, isn’t it?
Works with, erm, rabbits. Or birds.
I try my best, in my humble way, to continue being a bit inept.
Genius idea.
That’s brilliant! I love “Look, there’s a Squirrel” – classic!
I am making a note of the squirrel thing – sheer parenting genius