anyone with an 'average' kid (rant!)
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anyone with an 'average' kid (rant!)
| Tue, 11-09-2004 - 9:11pm |
do you ever get the feeling (either online or irl) that you are the only one with an 'average' kid? you know, one of those boring children who DIDN'T know all of their abc's by 2 1/2 or read novels in kindergarten or paint masterpeices in preschool or run for senate in 1st grade? do you ever feel like your child is the only one who does those annoying age appropriate things like pick their nose or eat soap just to see what it tastes like or wiggle when you're trying to magically turn them into a genius? do you ever feel like running out and dropping their college fund on some ever-so-exclusive private kindergarten just so you can brag that "my child is a future einstien too!?"
excuse me for a moment while i blow my top, lol.
but seriously, i have an 'average' kid. she's not reading on an 8th grade level, she's not doing college algebra, she's not currently working on the human genome project, and the only sign of genius i spotted this week was she used the word 'obsessed' in a gramatically correct sentence, ie, "daddy, you are OBSESSED with chickens!" lol. and i love her average little self to death, but sometimes i get worried when it seems like everyone elses kid is doing something exceptional while mine is just busy being normal. i know it's stupid and unfair to compare one kid to another, but it seems to play on all my mommy insecurities somehow.
so does anyone else have average kids? or is it just me? lol
excuse me for a moment while i blow my top, lol.
but seriously, i have an 'average' kid. she's not reading on an 8th grade level, she's not doing college algebra, she's not currently working on the human genome project, and the only sign of genius i spotted this week was she used the word 'obsessed' in a gramatically correct sentence, ie, "daddy, you are OBSESSED with chickens!" lol. and i love her average little self to death, but sometimes i get worried when it seems like everyone elses kid is doing something exceptional while mine is just busy being normal. i know it's stupid and unfair to compare one kid to another, but it seems to play on all my mommy insecurities somehow.
so does anyone else have average kids? or is it just me? lol

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