Walk through @ your own risk

I believe most parents prefer to not use “adult” language around their kids, but there are times when an extra effort is required to hold those “bad words” back. Take for example your kids bedroom, play room or your own living room. . .

My daughter Analise

Ever heard of Hot Wheels, Legos, Little People, even Jacks and balls for those of us of a “mature vintage ” lol. Those and many others are the guilty, little mouth trippers. No matter how good you think they have been picked up and put away, they always seem to find their way right under your bare foot.

Do you ever wonder if there is some true to the movie “Toy Story”? Because sometimes I do wonder…. Like in the middle of the night when I walk into my little ones bedroom, half asleep and suddenly get that sharp pain coming from the bottom of my foot and right up my leg! And with that pain comes the one on my tongue from biting it down to smother an ill chosen word or two. I can just see it, the little devils, just waiting for me to come in, plotting and planning…"get ready, here she comes!” and as I grab the door knob they ran to get in position. “Ha ha ha” They snicker under the crib, in the toy bins, on the shelves while I mutter those words I so carefully otherwise avoid using in my daily life.

How else do you explain that very rarely does a kid steps on any of this little hazards but we adults do it all the time? Is it a toy conspiracy, another type of magical gnome at play or just my tired mind trying to blame it on something else besides the fact that I can’t hardly focus when I just woke up and without my glasses ?…

I have a feeling the last is not the explanation, because I know there are many of you out there in Parentland that have suffered such incidents. You may not be willing to admit it, but you know you too have let the “dirty” word out a time or two.

Despite all this, I do not mind them having all this little things. To watch and listen as their imaginations take over makes it all worth it. Nothing like their proud smile when they show you their latest creation, or listening to the magnificent stories they act out through their playing with them.

So next time I feel the temptation to grab one of those little son of a gun toys, and throw them out the window, I will picture my kids happy faces and remember the sound of their laughter. After all they are only kids once and it does goes by to fast, and better yet, one day it will be them smothering their ill chosen word or two!

So until them, remember, sometimes it pays to look down :)

Copyright of Marielena Rosa-Harrison