Our family is fairly normal like every other family you have met until...we leave our home. Seriously, my kids are easy to control, listen to instructions and are fairly well-behaved. I even hear "Yes ma'am" for the smallest things and 85% of my instructions are followed. Until.....we are in (cue the scary music) PUBLIC!
From the sounds of it, this seems to be typical with other families, but nothing will make a parent doubt their skills and tactics than a test with other people watching. Fortunately, we are a very social family and we get the opportunity to display these skills several times a week. And that's when we look flustered, confused, bewildered and at the end of our rope when the kids run away, put gross objects in their mouths, stamp their feet, use that awful word "No" and refuse to play nicely. Mind you, my oldest knows what she is doing, because she comes to me later to say, "Mommy, I am sorry," with the sweetest face. So you are probably use to seeing our family like this:
But truly we have good children who are working continuously on their manner, respect for authority and their abundance of energy. What about you? Is our family normal or is this just something our children alone struggle with; the pressure to perform to the heightened expectations of the public eye?
In actuality, you will most likely find my little ones, doing something mundane and laid back when no one is around.
This is the picture that no one ever sees because in public, my children are incredibly excited to be around people (Siena has yet to meet a stranger), do and climb on new things and learn from all the experiences around them. Although they can leap over any object in a single bound, they are not Super Toddlers. They are just learning how to channel their God given enthusiasm and zest for life.
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