Wet towels and crazy mornings #momdialogues


Cool Mom: Is leaving a wet towel on the bed reason enough to spoil everyone’s morning, and that includes yours more than anyone else's?

Agitated Mom: It’s not just the towel and you know that. It’s ‘put away your plates after breakfast’, ‘put cream’, ‘pick up your jacket from the floor’, ‘take your tiffin’, ‘put in your bottles’ and on and on endlessly. To have to remind them every single day for every single task is just crazy. That towel was just the last straw. Besides, who does it if they don’t? I, right? That’s how I’ll be spending my entire day - cleaning up after them. What's even more ironical I’ll also have people saying, 'What do you do all day?' The kids are grown up now.' Hah! Grown up!!!

CM: Sigh! Such a long tirade! You could simply leave the towel on the bed.

AM: What?? Just leave it? So the bed and the towel become wet and stinky?

CM: Yeah well it’s the kids’ beds. They have to sleep in them. Let then sleep with the stink. That’ll remind them to put out the towels next time round.

AM: And what if they don’t? What if they don’t mind it at all? What if they get used to it? How hygienic is that? And what kind of a life-long habit am I helping them form?

CM: I’ll repeat - choose your battles. Choose your timing. The other option is of course to lose your patience, to give them an earful and then feel lousy all day long. As for life-long habits - they have time yet to pick them up. You want the kids to look back on their school days and remember only crazy mornings?

AM: No obviously not.

CM: The trouble is not with telling them to do stuff, the trouble is with you losing your cool when you do so. So how about playing some peaceful music, taking up your cup of tea and thinking happy thoughts - like the time N made you tea, remember? They do some good too. Oh and don't forget to put yourself on repeat mode till they learn to finish their tasks, okay? It’s just one crazy hour, after all.

Picture Credit: Pixabay
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This isn't the first time I have had multiple mums fighting it out in my head. You can read about other mommy wars herehere and here.

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