I read this post and this post today and it made me wonder what it would be like to be a parent.
How would I explain things to my kids without making them as fucked-up as I am?
By things, I mean everything.
There's a lot of things to explain.
If you read the first post, you'll have seen that kids can also explain things to us;that there is an amazing clarity of thought in pre-adults...um, my mind wanders...oh.
Right.
What happens to that clarity? Is it ruined by over-exposure to adults?
I lost my clarity cherry when I started binge-drinking and dropping acid at age 14; I understand that this is not considered normal.
I certainly wouldn't let my kids get like that.
I hope.
I'd be a helpless parent. I fear I wouldn't be able to give answers to basic questions- for instance: if your child asks you, " what are thoughts?", what answer do you give?
My Kid: "Daddy, what are thoughts?"
Me: "Thoughts are the voices in your head that tell you what to do."
My Kid: "You are the only one who hears those. What are thoughts, daddy?"
This is the cue for my ex-wife to drive in to pick up the kids, saving me from having to answer the question.
"Ask your mother- see you next weekend!"
I'd watch my entire life climb into an SUV, my SUV, our SUV and disappear, just like they do every Sunday.
I'd shuffle my feet and wonder where it all went wrong.
3 comments:
This is not my beautiful house!
This in not my beautiful wife!
Thanks for the link. :) See you on the 15th.
slap their butts in front of the tv and let sesame street raise them like the rest of america.
philosophical discussions with my 7 year old are some of the happiest moments in my life. you'd be amazed how much they can absorb and actually understand. sometimes I think, "this is going way over his head", but then like a month later I'll hear him talking about it with someone else and I'm like wow! there is no perfection in parenting. i think kids mostly want engagement that is real, and not being thrown into the kiddie kamp pool of 'being too young' and all that other blah blah that means ' i have no fucking idea how to discuss this with u so u are too young'.
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