We need to just love our kids for who they are and stop putting unnecessary labels on them. They don’t need to be the sports’ kid, the smart kid, or the social kid. Kindness is the only label our kids really need.
Mother dresses child for the snow.
Child undresses in the snow.
Child catches a cold.
Cold turns into the plague.
Child recovers from the plague.
Mother catches the plague.
Mother dies but keeps doing chores.
Me “Hey would you change our daughter’s diaper so I can get to her to bed.”
Husband “I already changed her diaper and I already put her to bed.”
Me “What?! You want sex.”
Husband “It was just the right thing to do.”
Me “You want sex.”
Husband “I want sex.”
Remember as a kid you had that friend who had a parent who was always in bed and you always wondered what the hell was wrong with them?
I am now that parent.