YUP!!! Jeff and I are the not-so-proud winners of the "Parents of the Year" award.
A week ago, the kids were so being so kind to walk some of the neighbor kids home and on the way, Ali tripped and fell. Sarah brought her back and she was sobbing. The problem: Ali is our Drama Queen and she often seems to exaggerate most things. After "trying" to sympathize, we had enough of her complaining and quickly told her to stop crying or complaining about her "hurt" arm and to toughen up. She needed help getting up and down from her bed, getting dressed, making her bed, you name it, she needed help with. She has always been one for trying really hard to get out of work and we were not going to have anything to do with that excuse.
Until this morning when I was helping her do something and I grabbed her arm and she pulled it back very quickly and started crying. The way she reacted to my grabbing her, I thought something has got to be wrong.
I took her into the doctor and sure enough, it was broken.
So, there you have it -- our parenting skills could use a little improvement in the sympathy area. One more proof of that, when I called Jeff to tell him Ali was not faking it, our conclusion was something like this:
"Well, if she wouldn't cry wolf all the time and complain about everything so much, maybe we would believe her." Okay, that was my comment, so I am the insensitive one.
We really do feel bad, and hope that our kids will forgive us of all our bad parenting moments that are far from being over.
5 comments:
we did that to brie once...it was her ankle. poor kids and us insensitive parents :)
My mom wouldn't believe me either. I broke my arm I think it was 8th grade and she even made me do my homework. I remember trying to write with my left hand. You're just normal.
My mom sent me to kindergarten with Strep once. When the school nurse called, she was mortified. She never disbelieved me again when I said I wasn't feeling well enough to go to school again. Well, at least not until junior high school. :)
Ahhh, poor Ali! I guess I get the award too-I just did that to Jonah in May about his collerbone that was broken. I thought he was just being a whiner!
Corrine, how come you stopped blogging? We miss reading your blogs. Hope all is well. Clark
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