WHEN YOU SEE HOW YOUR CHILD IMITATING YOU AND YOU START TO GET SCARED

“My children don’t remember what they eat for lunch but they remember what you are”

Do you know that you mean everything to your children?

You are a hero, a designer, a doctor, a teacher, a psychologist, a dentist, a chef, and everything and whoever the kids want from you right now. Mom may be a fairy because the children want to play in the magical forest. You can be a princess because they built a castle. In their store, you are always a customer. I’m never a customer because my son said: “Mom, you don’t know how to use the cash register.”

Lately, I’ve been a guest in a restaurant a lot and I can’t use my children’s names or nice words like “bąbelku”, only I have to use the form “Mr.” or “Mrs.” In my daughter’s hairdressing salon, I also have to call her Miss Dora and believe me, my new hairstyle has nothing to do with my choice. In this children’s salon, the stylist chooses how and what to do with the hair, and you just have to pretend to be happy. Same story when I visit my son’s restaurant. He doesn’t care if I just want croissants, they serve pizza for breakfast and you should be happy about that.

How do children perceive the world?

From the very beginning, I love my children’s curiosity, confidence, and independence. I like their approach to making new friends and having fun together.
Their world looks so simple, nothing else matters except fun. Of course, they encounter unpleasant situations: toys taken by other children scratched knees, spilled drinks, or spilled cornflakes. But they handle it brilliantly. This way they also learn a little about real life.

It’s truly amazing how children can copy professions, characters, and people. Of course, first of all, they copy us – parents and our behavior. My words and behaviors have a huge impact on my young children. All the fun activities we participate in also show how well our children cope in various situations. Many times, I realized that it didn’t seem like my children were listening to me when I was ordering a coffee, when I was making an appointment with the doctor, or when my husband was calling the plumber. But then, while playing together, the whole truth that they listened and still remembered well comes to light. They know that mom pays in cash and dad pays by card. They can recognize my doctor on the street and shout: “Mom, the doctor is across the street.”

And if you still think that your children don’t listen to you and don’t follow you, check out my post in which my children come to their grandmother with a lighter in their hand and say: “Dad left the lighter on the balcony because he smokes”. And everyone in the family hides the truth because Dad was supposed to quit smoking a long time ago.

https://littlepuzzlesandme.com/from-one-year-with-my-children-to-another-few/

Did you know when children are 3, 4, 5, 6 …. years old, they believe everything you tell them?

So be prepared and try to choose the right words in conversations with children. My chipmunks, catch my every hesitation and then bombard me with a thousand additional questions, just because I didn’t answer right away. These are such Wiz kids that I’m afraid of them. They can also very quickly pick up on my emotions: sadness, stress, nervousness, and joy. This is very dangerous when I play with my daughter, because when I hear:

Mom, don’t you like this hairstyle? That means she noticed my surprised expression in the mirror:

“Of course, I love this hairstyle… Lots of clips and elastic bands on one side, less on the other. And what do I have in the middle?

Crayons!

Oh, crayons. I love crayons in my hair too.

Just remember that you don’t always have to praise all hairstyles, but for your good, either don’t say anything or if you’re worried about your hair, come up with another game.

I hope it will be a long time before my children stop imitating me, playing with me, listening to me, and telling me unreal stories. I hope we will laugh together forever and enjoy every small moment of their little lives.