Lifes Like That

Little kids really do amuse me.   Why is it when you want them to play quietly, they are playing so loud that the people in the next town can hear them, but when they have something really important to say, they talk in tiny whispers??  My youngest son does this to me all the time.  He’s so loud and talks so much that most of the time I tune him out and I really have to stop doing this.

Yesterday he asked me a question and as I really wasn’t listening to him, I kind of tuned him out and just answered with my standard OK.  He got so excited that I said yes to “something” that I had to ask him to repeat the question and then discovered I had agreed to something that I wouldn’t have had I been listening.  I think it’s a trick they have on all us parents and sometimes they do get away with it.  But I learned my lesson and I will be listening to him a bit more closely from now on.