My sister posted this lovely conversation with her 9 year old daughter that just made me laugh…<\/p>\n
Brooke: “Eww, what are those black things under your arm?” By the way, my daughter says I shouldn’t post this. But I know nobody reads this anyway. It’s just for her to read when she’s my age so she can laugh.<\/p>\n Good thing I have a sense of humor, so she’s still alive. <\/em><\/p>\n Yes, as mothers, we sometimes take the brunt of the criticism, and brutal honesty, from our kids.<\/p>\n I got this message yesterday from college daughter, who is not big on thank yous or sentiment.<\/p>\n “I love you. Thank you for all the sacrifices you’ve made for me to be in college that I will never know about. I’m going to crush it…. thank you.”<\/em><\/p>\n Yeah, if I weren’t already crying after dropping her off at school on Saturday, that would do it.<\/p>\n Kids. Gotta love them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My sister posted this lovely conversation with her 9 year old daughter that just made me laugh… Brooke: “Eww, what are those black things under your arm?” Mommy: “They’re hairs. I need to shave, but it’s hard to get time to take a shower when I’m taking care of all you kids.” Brooke: “Eww, yes, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9083"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9083"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9085,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9083\/revisions\/9085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMommy: “They’re hairs. I need to shave, but it’s hard to get time to take a shower when I’m taking care of all you kids.”
\nBrooke: “Eww, yes, you need to get rid of that! And your leg is all bristly.”
\nMommy: “Someday, you will have the same thing on your legs.”
\nBrooke: “But I don’t! . . .Oh, I guess once I’m OLD like you, I might. So why does your body look so bad? Daddy’s older than you, and he’s PERFECT! You even said so! He’s like immortal! You said he’s smarter than you!”
\nMommy: “Some day you’re going to learn to be more polite to your mother.”
\nBrooke: “But I can’t say something like ‘You’re beautiful’ when you have those ugly red bumps on your chin!”<\/p>\n