2008 marks the second year that I am working at the City of Sunnyvale's Summer Express Day Camp. As I'm presently 7 months pregnant, I decided not to teach full time and opted to work in the office ... greeting parents, handing out ice packs and bandaging up skinned knees.
As we are now week 3 into camp and I've had a lot of time to watch parents interact with their kids, I can't help but wonder "what kind of parent will I be?"
Will I be the hard core mom who says to her son ... "I understand that it hurt when the basketball bonked you in the head and I know that you have blood on your shorts from when you fell and scraped your knee but you HAVE to stay at school until I come and pick you up at the end of the day. The band-aid is all you need ... you will walk again - without a limp, one of these days ..."
Or ... will I be the over protective mom who, in the process of pretty much dragging her son to his first class, stops smack dab in the middle of the courtyard full of kids ... pulls up her son's shirt ... tells him to hold it ... while she re-ties the neat little bow on drawstring of his pants and then proceeds to tuck his shirt back into his recently adjusted pants/shirt/drawstring dealybobby ...
I am personally hoping that there is some kind of happy medium between the two types of moms but I have my suspicions that Cletus is still gonna seek counseling as soon as he's of age : )
Three cheers to impending Mommyhood ... lookout world here I come !!!
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...and then you will proceed to lick your finger and use it to wipe a smuge of his cheek. oh and btw, this is all at freshman orientation!
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