Childe was role playing me at nursery. Role playing me by putting on ‘make up’ (paint) and a ‘beautiful dress’ (some sad rags which were once a Snow White costume) and then telling everyone she was “Goin’ to drink a glass of WINE in the res’runt wiv my FRENZ!”
My inner Daily Fail journo cringed at this representation of a selfish working mother drinking wine and plastering the slap on in front of her child.
Her teacher laughed at my cringe. Her take on it was it showed open communication and sensible social behaviour (I think that means drinking wine with ‘frenz’, not out of the bottle).
No newspapers aren’t watching me, of judging me, of course. But I’ve been reading them and I guess they’ve got inside my head – I’m watching myself through their eyes. Censoring myself. I am a bit more embarrassed about that. It’s not something I want to rub off on the Childe.
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That’s hilarious, and so adorable that she wants to be just like her mum! A little embarrassing but a real compliment 🙂
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Ha! Very cute though. Her teacher is right though about it being positive, and I am willing to bet she has seen much worse!
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That is too funny. As a mum to two grown up boys, trust me, you will experience a few more of these sort of instances haha! Kids are funny, just maybe not for us mums…..
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It’s funny how children want to recreate adult social behaviour, even without understanding it ! I guess that’s why it can seem a bit embarrassing 😅
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This is such a sweet story, definitely nothing to be embarrassed about! I used to draw pictures of my mum holding a glass of wine and she loves to tell me how much she cringed haha xx
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It’s hard not to get self-conscious when children notice you drinking alcohol. They always seem to make it seem more than you actually drink!
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I did the same thing to my mother when I was a wee little one, we really don’t know better hehe x
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Ha! Speaking as a teacher, I think this is really cute! I would think it was a child trying to be like their normal, sociable parent!
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This is adorable and so funny. As Mums we always feel guilty for everything! We shouldn’t. I am sure that if a friend was to tell you this story about their child, you would giggle and smile and wouldn’t think any less of her as a mother.
Besides, it could be worse. When my eldest was 4 and I was teaching dance classes one evening a week, he told his teacher “Mummy goes out dancing at night for money” 😂🤭🤦🏻♀️
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Haha! Oh they have such a way with words!
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I was mortified 😂
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