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Refreshingly honest?

Kids are the true purveyors of honesty. They will tell whatever they are thinking with out a second thought. And though while I enjoy honesty versus lying, especially from my kids, sometimes it would nicer if they kept their thought to themselves...

Example:
Yesterday Aid and Lil were getting ready to take a bath. At the last minute I asked them if I could take a quick shower before they got in the tub. Fine by them, so I turned on the shower, de-robed, and waited for the water to reach a stable temperature. While standing there with my hand in the shower, Aid comes up behind me and pushes on my ass. He walks away, then turns around and says "Your butt is disgusting." I'm trying not to laugh at his out-of-the-blue comment, and say "Aid that's not nice, my butt is not disgusting, why do you say that?" To which he replies, "Yes it is, it's fat. Daddy has a fat butt too." "You and daddy have fat butts." I was trying so hard not to laugh that I couldn't talk. If I could I would have explained how saying things like that could be hurtful to ones feelings.

Then this morning, I'm helping Jen get ready for school. She's brushing her teeth, and I'm putting her shoes on so she won't miss the bus. I'm singing, and she tells me to stop. She says my singing is bad. I ask her if she really means that, or is she just frustrated with me because I'm annoying her. She says "No, it's true. Your singing is bad."

I could get quite a complex from these two. But I don't let it bother me because my ass is always covered in public, and I only sing at home. I also know my self esteem is strong enough to withstand a couple of very honest kids.

posted by doingwhatilove @ 7:41 AM