I’ve Been Listening
Sometimes my husband and I gossip at the dinner table. It’s a bad habit, but we do it in code so we feel safe from the prying ears of The Children. Not anymore. The other night we were discussing some particularly juicy tidbit when my daughter says, “I know who you’re talking about.” I was smug. “No, you don’t.”
Turns out she did. She told me she’d been “collecting clues” for weeks. And then, the most terrifying bit,
“I’ve been listening, in the car, when you’re on the phone.”
We have entered a whole new phase of code, I fear.
by Lela Davidson on May 4, 2010
in motherhood, Rugrats, Tweens, & Other Offspring
Oh no! She is a little sleuth!!!
You won’t have to talk in cypher codes for long. When your daughter reaches her teen-age years, she won’t hear a word you say, even if you shout. Then when she turns twenty, she’ll begin listening again–to everything but good advice.
@John – thanks so much for the encouragement, you should write a parenting book.
@Melissa – she reads too much. If I could only get her to sit numbed in front of the TV I’d probably be better off.