{"id":11517,"date":"2011-10-11T11:49:38","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T18:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/momservations.wordpress.com\/?p=11517"},"modified":"2011-10-11T11:49:38","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T18:49:38","slug":"takes-one-to-know-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/momservations.com\/index.php\/2011\/10\/11\/takes-one-to-know-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Takes One to Know One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Momservation: <\/strong>The apple may not fall far from the tree, but that doesn\u2019t mean you can\u2019t pick it up and huck it as far as you can.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\u263a\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u263a\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u263a<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11518\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11518\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/momservations.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/10\/spring-07-074.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11518\" title=\"Spring '07 074\" src=\"http:\/\/momservations.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/10\/spring-07-074.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11518\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My little apple who&#039;s not falling far from my tree<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>My daughter has been driving me crazy with her forgetfulness.<\/p>\n<p>My daughter has been driving me nuts with her absentmindedness.<\/p>\n<p>My daughter has been driving me bonkers with her tardiness.<\/p>\n<p>My daughter has been testing my patience with her stubbornness.<\/p>\n<p>It is really annoying that she is just like me.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to get mad at a kid who is taking after all of your bad traits. Try as I might to set a good example and steer my kids down the path of exemplary behavior, there\u2019s just no avoiding the DNA pothole in the road.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s good irony for you \u2013 as far back as I can remember I\u2019ve been forgetful. I would forget my carefully made lunch on the counter, the books I needed for homework in my desk, the unsigned permission slip still in my binder. Current day d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu .<\/p>\n<p>Once my 4<sup>th<\/sup> grade teacher reminded us on a Friday that we still had school on Monday despite it being a holiday for public school kids (and my siblings). I forgot. Happily stayed home and played with my public school friends, enjoying the day off. When I went to school the next day I was humiliated by my teacher when she admonishingly made me admit I forgot we still had school. I was also bummed to miss out on Matt Carlson barfing on Jenny Smith sitting in front of him and being sent home.<\/p>\n<p>I would try so hard to remember the important things, but my head firmly resided in the clouds. Like my daughter, Whitney, I was an excellent student but a creative soul. If a writing project was assigned for homework, everything else became background noise while I eagerly got a jump on crafting it in my head. If the day was overcast, I\u2019d start thinking about the cool fort I\u2019d make out of blankets once I got home. If it was a holiday time, a stray scrap could send me off imagining the cool seasonal crafts I could make out of repurposed material.<\/p>\n<p>Did I mention Whitney is in her room right now making a duct tape wallet and roses instead of finishing her homework?<\/p>\n<p>Whitney\u2019s distractedness leads to her tardiness. She is Side-track Sally, Jr. We have raced out of the house late or nearly late because she stopped to play with something in her room instead of putting on her shoes; still needs to brush her teeth because she got caught up playing with her hair in the mirror; didn\u2019t hear me tell her to turn off the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teennick.com\/shows\/drake-and-josh\/\">Drake &amp; Josh<\/a> for the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> time because she was so absorbed in the show.<\/p>\n<p>I would yell at her to get going but I\u2019d see dishes in the sink and stop to put them in the dishwasher, or be racing back to my room with the car keys in my hand because I forgot to put on my jewelry, or losing track of time because I got caught up on<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\"> Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is why I\u2019ve entrusted teaching the value of being on time to Hubby because he\u2019s still working on me.<\/p>\n<p>The worst apple\/tree phenomenon though is her stubbornness. If I don\u2019t budge and she won\u2019t budge, it makes for an interesting showdown. Once we got mad at each other over something at the dinner table. We both retreated into our rooms exasperated.<\/p>\n<p>When Hubby went to talk to Whitney, gently explaining that she should probably apologize to me for her behavior she rebuked him saying, \u201cNo. It\u2019s Mom who needs to apologize to me!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I like to think Whitney and I both have many other redeeming qualities. But where my faults are long ingrained, there\u2019s still hope for Whitney. I plan on picking up her little apple and hucking it far from my tree so she doesn\u2019t have to find a husband that puts up with her forgetful, absentminded, tardy, stubbornness because she\u2019s kinda cute and pretty smart.<\/p>\n<p>But, boy, it\u2019s a good things she\u2019s cute and smart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mom wants to huck her little apple far from her tree to try to break the cycle of problem traits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[556,557,558,294,2,559,86,3,5,28,560],"class_list":["post-11517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parenting-humor-2","tag-bad-habits","tag-breaking-bad-habits","tag-drake-josh","tag-facebook","tag-family","tag-inherited-traits","tag-kelli-wheeler","tag-kids","tag-momservations","tag-parenting-humor","tag-setting-good-examples-for-your-kids"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Takes One to Know One - Kelli M. 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