Today when I was out (shocker that i left the house today, isn’t it!), there were lots of kids around me other than my own. Two kids kept coming up wanting to chat. There was one in particular that would not shut up.
“Look at this toy.”
“This is a blaster.”
“You blast from this end.”
“Look at it”
“This toy is white.”
“I can stick my tongue out.”
“I like to play with this toy.”
No matter how much acknowledgment I gave this kid, he wouldn’t leave. I have no idea if its some ingrained motherly instinct to not let your own kid get on your nerves, but I wanted to lock this kid in a closet with duct tape around his mouth.
In Siberia.
If we still had that whole “it takes a village concept”, I would opt out.
~Trisha
Yeah, and there’s a particular age of “OPKs” that I object to the most– about age 2/3 till about age 8.
Before that, they don’t bother strangers much, and after that, they’ve got enough social acumen to know that incessantly chatting up random, obviously uninterested adults just Isn’t Done.
That said, this bothers me less than it did when I had just one child. Nowadays I’ve got enough on my plate to never feel guilty about telling the kid “Hey, I don’t want to talk right now. GO ON.”
If that makes some other mom mad, that’s her problem. lol. But it hasn’t yet, actually.
Honestly, I think some of them are relieved that it’s still okay to tell a preschooler to get lost for awhile. It’s not like we’re all sitting dutifully at the playground for the sake of our own health.
I am so relieved to know that this seems to be a trend I’m seeing! I’ve always had some trepidation about having kids seeing as most other people’s children genuinely annoy the crap out of me. I’m always like “control your child!” Well, after speaking with some of my friends who are moms they continue to say the same thing: that while they love their own child(ren) and theirs can do no wrong, other people’s children continue to get on their nerves. Whew!! There is hope for me!!!!