Interview Their Kids
My friend literally INTERVIEWS her kid every day when she gets home from school. When I tell her that I think she’s voyeuristic, she protests that it is ‘connecting.’ Durham, who is 8, might say that school was crummy today, and then my friend says stuff like, ‘Was Charlie mean to you again?’ or ‘Did Mrs. T. criticize you for asking too many questions again?’ or ‘Did Laurel leave you out of the jump rope contest at recess.’ I think she means well, but I feel like she’s training her kid to be a victim coughing up villain material so that she can coo, hiss and smother her kid with ‘just come home to mama.’
This entry was posted on Wednesday, June 16th, 2010 at 9:09 am and is filed under Uncategorized.