"We must maintain composure and be consistent". This is the first thing that we "Teach" when we become parents but of course, this is just the theory, the practice will later show us without hot cloths that sometimes keeping the guy is very complicated and sometimes scolding them for some mischief, makes us endure laughter ... if we can.
Yes, there are pranks that our children comment and that we must correct them, let them see that something they have done wrong but there are mischiefs of theirs that make us cry with laughter.
Hasn't it ever happened to you that you had to turn around to not laugh in front of them because what they had done deserved your disapproval in the face of their education but it was also very funny? Well, about those, I want to talk about them and our own attitude to live them like that, with them.
First and very important: we have to update ourselves in blaming others for our misdeeds. That of "The dog ate my homework" It has become obsolete, nobody believes it anymore. Now the culprit of the last pifia can be perfectly Batman! why not?
As they said on a shirt, I only know that he has never been seen in the same room as me, why can't I be Batman? Following that maxim, if you have left your hand painting the mirror with mom's carmine but nobody has seen you, when asked "Who has it been?" Why couldn't Batman be the culprit? Is he going to come home to deny it?
Well ... and if it comes wuuuaaauuuu !! For that reason alone it is worth the punishment or whatever mom has in mind after seeing this messy. No, the video is not wasted and the reaction of the funny mom either, simply great both!
As soon as I saw the face of that boy trying to convince his mother that Batman had been the "graffiti artist" in his mirror, the memories came to mind. "Faces" of those two pieces to which his father "Interrogates" how good can you get in the shower so they don't expand your “Pringue-pinturil” For the rest of the house.
And yes, I say "how can" because there comes a time when although the father knows at first glance that what they have done is not right, although he punishes them without juice for their bad action ... there comes a time when he can no longer endure the hilarious situation and mischief, their faces of assuming or not the responsibility of the act and their answers full of innocence and desire for the bad drink to pass as soon as possible but watch out! that it is not that they are especially scared but rather afflicted, until they hear their father's laughter and of course ... it's over what was going on in a bad way.
Then, sometimes, in life things happen and they are not excuses although well ... maybe a little yes, yes they are but some excuses of those that are never forgotten.
¿Who has never dreamed as a child that could go for example, to a concert with his father and that the artist was going to sign a paper to take him to school the next day justifying their tiredness, their dark circles and even almost their desire to lie on the desk to take a nap? Well then that happened to another child and the note was signed by no less than Bruce Springsteen. I think that the teacher has not yet removed her face of surprise when reading it and seeing the photos of the boy, his father and "the Boss". And it doesn't surprise me.
Bruce Springsteen signed Xabi's tardy note for school tomorrow. He is as genuine and gracious as you think he is! pic.twitter.com/mmTlxjFveG
- Scott Glovsky (@ScottGlovskyLaw) March 16, 2016
Freedom to laugh
Sounds so simple and sometimes we find it so complicated. School schedules, work schedules, homework, time and the time that always whips us and changes the rictus. The smile erases us to put on our faces the ugly grimace of haste, of haste, of urgency.
As the French thinker points out Edgar Morin in his work “Teach to live. Manifesto to change education ”freedom is something we sometimes forget to include in the education of our children, the freedom to choose different options and be consistent with your choices. Perhaps the first examples are very childish but the third is very significant of that freedom, of that teaching.
It is true that freedom can and indeed is, is dangerous from the moment that contradicts the norm or the law or the established truths (as happens to the children of the first examples, that they have skipped the norms with pole at least) but we should Learning to teach them to decide when to be prudent is also a way of exercising their freedom of choice. It is always interesting to read Edgar Morin and draw conclusions about the education we can offer our children.
Time to "be"
What is evident is that to educate them, to teach them to exercise their freedom, to show them that they must recognize their actions and assume their consequences It is imperative that we be there and we knock again at the door of time, the one that escapes between our fingers during the childhood of our children.
Time, what happens while we make plans as they say out there and already if we put a surname on it and call it "quality time" The thing gets even more complicated.
Or maybe not so much. For reasons beyond our control We may not be able to spend more time with our children, but we can spend the time in which we are with them.
How many times have you responded to an email while the boy is in the bathtub? How many whatsapps have you responded while the girl is having dinner?
Yes, they are more than justified, that nobody doubts but they couldn't wait at least until they no longer see that you are but that you are not?
Yes, they may not express it but of course they notice that we look at the screen when we talk to them and that translates for example in the United States, in which 75% of children recognize that their parents do not completely disconnect from work when they are at home with them.
Obviously those parents are not in a very good mood either and in some of the cases we have talked about before, perhaps their reaction would not have been as positive as that of the mother to whom Batman paints the mirror or the father who punishes them without Juice between laughs. Being the same mischief the reaction can be very different only because of external factors outside them, to our children.
Maybe it's a topic to reflect on: let's accept that the time we have to "be" is limited yes, then "be" one hundred percent with them. Because their childhood escapes, because they learn from the example we give them, because we can teach them by enjoying them and because you never know ... what if Batman appears one day to say yes, what was he?
