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How To Become A Nagging Parent
Filed Under (Raising the Child) by Footyman on 17-11-2008
(written by Footywife)
My mum nags a lot when I was a kid. Even now she nags a lot. I never understood why mothers nag until I become a mother myself.
It’s all thanks to the super short-term memory of young children. “Don’t jump around when you’re eating Jadon or you’ll choke”, I called. He stopped but 10 seconds later, he’s at it again. “Stop jumping around I say, Jadon!”. He stopped again but 10 seconds later he’s at it again. “I say STOP Jadon!! Do you understand STOP?!!”… …
Or it could be “Don’t jump on the sofa, Jadon. The sofa’s for sitting, not jumping” He jumps a while more and comes down. You go into the room and when you return he’s jumping on the sofa again. You repeat the same instruction and inevitably he does it again later. And the next day. And the day after.
And because I know that their memories are short term, I repeat instructions over and over again. “Be careful Jadon because the floor is wet” – I say this without fail whenever I see wet floors.
So I can just imagine how this business of “repeating the same instruction over and over again” everyday, 7 days a week, 365 days a year is going to CHANGE me. It WILL become a habit such that even after my little boy grows up and no longer requires instructions to be repeated because he has developed a longer term memory, I will still continue to “repeat the same instruction over and over again”.
By which time the same act will be called “nagging”.
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hellooo! nice to hear from you again! so u stop blogging for a while? Pardon me as I have been quite passive in blog hopping recently. But if you shout at my shoutbox, I surely will read and visit you! =D
Haha about nagger, my mum is the bo chap kind, it’s my dad who nags more often. =P Hmm.. I will nag at someone if I become kiasu or kiasi haha
hey! thanks for dropping by again!
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glad to have you blogging again!
and the nagging.. yeah, hehe.. never STOPS!..
LOL! Well that explains it quite nicely! I never even thought about it this way but it makes complete sense! It’s hilarious but true, and explains my practiced reaction of secret eye rolling to my mother’s endless reminders. My short term memory developed but the eye rolling was habit.
oh! that’s quite hilarious! I think that mothers are always like that.
Hi. I’m a mother myself. Sometimes we question some things which we haven’t experienced yet and later realize when we’re on that same situation. Yes I share the same experiences with you. But I think nagging is not good, so we better refrain from doing it. Cheers!
Sure know what you’re saying! I have four kids myself, and try not to nag… but what if they DO choke on that food, right.
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