Jan 27 2010

Smile Please!

Published by DDmom at 12:40 am under Ddidi, Parenting

Yesterday night, D wanted a new real story to be told, real like in Greg Mortenson uncle’s school stories (Three cups of tea). The father surrenders to the request and barely manages to keep his eyes open while churning out some African on-the-spot tale set in Serengeti. They ended up into an argument over the elephant eating oranges Vs dirty green grass.

D says Good Night papa and cuddles with me. Her eyes are wide open, I ask her to keep them closed and try to sleep. Also muttering.. Tomorrow is school day.. bus won’t wait for late kids.. you’ll miss out on all the school fun.. the usual threats which her sensory organs must have become immune to, by now.

She says “Smile”

The patience quo dries up, I tell her with that not-so-pleasant tone that I am in no mood for nautanki at 9:30 in the night. If she does not want to sleep, she can take a book and read. I am feeling sleepy and I am going to sleep.

She replies “I am saying smile and sleep, mumma. If you sleep with a smiling face and think about stuff you like, you’ll get a happy dream. If you sleep being cranky, you’ll get bad dreams.”

Sounds familiar, where have I heard that before? It all comes back, the good, the bad and the ugly!!

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8 Responses to “Smile Please!”

  1. # swation 27 Jan 2010 at 2:17 am

    aww so cute

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  2. # starry eyedon 27 Jan 2010 at 2:22 am

    Kids make good reminder-alarms!

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  3. # Shrution 27 Jan 2010 at 5:03 am

    haha! :) it all comes back. True!

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  4. # Collection Of Starson 27 Jan 2010 at 9:54 am

    In my case it is ‘Amma, keep a smiling face’ :)

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  5. # K3on 27 Jan 2010 at 2:29 pm

    Awww!! Can I borrow this charming girl? :)

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  6. # choxboxon 28 Jan 2010 at 2:32 pm

    LOL!

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  7. # DDmomon 28 Jan 2010 at 11:02 pm

    @all: Thanks for the comments. That’s why I try to follow the rule – preach only what you can follow yourself :) :)

    @K3: Sure! She is a package deal, there are extreme tantrum phases that get tagged along :) . An awesome entertainer either way :)

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  8. # Poppyon 04 Feb 2010 at 4:05 am

    OMFG _ I hear that all the time here. When I’m particularly cranky she’ll say – Cheer up , Smile all the time. Feel ashamed of myself :)

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