they knew

[metaphortunate]

I realize it's a cliche, but... I am finally internalizing that, all that stuff I did when I was a kid that my folks didn't know about? They knew. They just didn't OFFICIALLY know, because if they'd officially known, they would have had to do something about it.

Because it's vitally important that the Junebug not learn that the REAL rule is "no drawing with your yogurt, unless Daddy is sick and Rocket needs changing and Mama is running late and no one has time to cope with your yogurt bullshit." So if he SEES me see him drawing with yogurt - fuck, time to drop everything and enforce the rules. But if not, it's not time to bring him in on the delicate daily calculations of whether to prioritize teaching table manners or getting to work almost on time. Let him think he's sneaky.

Comments

[wired]

Yup. Also, I always know when the kids are reading in bed. They are not fooling me. But the forbidden is awfully alluring.

[loligo]

You have wisdom.

[lovepeaceohana]

Haha, yuuuuuuup: the parenting art of selective vision and hearing! Ours still seem to think that anything they do is invisible to us as long as they are under a blanket. Personally I am hoping that this will continue into their teenage years so that when they "sneak out" by hiding under a blanket and leaving, we'll at least know they've gone.

[ironed_orchid]

I love this plan.

[metaphortunate]

LOL. Yes, long may the efforts at stealth be amusing.

[amaebi]

Just so! :D

[jesse_the_k]

Wow. Childless me is in awe.

How long does this awesome see-through-walls-and-deception power last? Age five? ten? sixteen?

[metaphortunate]

IDK, but I plan to milk it for absolutely as long as I can!

[rosefox]

I wonder whether he knows that you know. :)

[metaphortunate]

"El diablo sabe mas por viejo que por diablo," as my mom always said. ("The devil knows more because he is so old than because he is the devil.")