yesterday dd started talking about one of her nursery friends. To be precise, the daughter of my ex-boss. I’d said to her mother that we would have to try to keep in touch, and then I’d done nothing to do that – so last night, I called them. Very proud of myself for doing so, but a little taken aback when G said she wasn’t doing anything today and did I want to come over for lunch? So we did.
The girls were thrilled to see each other, but H’s little brother was less than impressed – he doesn’t like to share his sister 😉 Dd didn’t cope terribly well with the excitement of the day though, it turned out that H on her home territory doesn’t do as she’s told like she did at nursery, and consequently there were quite a few arguments – dd even resorting to walloping her at one stage 🙁
Catching up with G, their mother, and I think she thinks I’ve gone barking mad. Home education, cloth nappies – you’re a real earth mother she said, you’ll be planting a vegetable patch next. Erm, no, we started that last week. Rofl. I don’t feel like an earth mother – I’m still hopeless at cooking, we run out of clothes on a regular basis, and shouldn’t I wear floaty skirts or something? I rather put my foot in it at lunch though – H started a conversation about school, dd answered her with the fact that she is never going to school, and I tried to explain that you don’t have to go to school, but that you do other things instead…and you can see the enormous hole that I dug for myself, can’t you?
So what do I say to other ppl’s children? I’ve had countless conversations with parents about it, but this is the first time a child has challenged me on it, and I think I made rather a pigs ear of it to tell the truth.
I think we might try this tomorrow.
