This Girl Doesn't Lie
Since my husband has been deployed, I've noticed that my daughter seems to need my approval more than ever.
She's always been the kind of child who is eager to please adults, especially her parents. But since I'm the only parent around right now (and she knows I report to her favorite parent) she seems to be highly aware of my reactions to every little thing.
I've especially noticed this before and after her violin lessons this week. She can't seem to stop looking at me and asking what I think. "How did I do, Mom?" She's never really asked that before.
But yesterday while she was practicing a particularly difficult passage at home, she was staring right at me instead of at her fingers or bow.
"Why are you looking at me?" I asked her.
She didn't reply but started the passage over again. But she wasn't half way through when she looked up at me again.
"Do I have music notes on my face?" I asked her as I rubbed my nose and tried to get her to lighten up just a little.
She giggled and went back to playing her passage. Within moments her eyes floated back up to my face again.
I was getting a little exasperated. "Honey!" I implored, "Why do you keep looking at me?"
"I can't help it," she replied. "You're just so attractive."
That's my girl. Desperate for approval and a suck up. Maybe someday she'll make a great politician.
She's always been the kind of child who is eager to please adults, especially her parents. But since I'm the only parent around right now (and she knows I report to her favorite parent) she seems to be highly aware of my reactions to every little thing.
I've especially noticed this before and after her violin lessons this week. She can't seem to stop looking at me and asking what I think. "How did I do, Mom?" She's never really asked that before.
But yesterday while she was practicing a particularly difficult passage at home, she was staring right at me instead of at her fingers or bow.
"Why are you looking at me?" I asked her.
She didn't reply but started the passage over again. But she wasn't half way through when she looked up at me again.
"Do I have music notes on my face?" I asked her as I rubbed my nose and tried to get her to lighten up just a little.
She giggled and went back to playing her passage. Within moments her eyes floated back up to my face again.
I was getting a little exasperated. "Honey!" I implored, "Why do you keep looking at me?"
"I can't help it," she replied. "You're just so attractive."
That's my girl. Desperate for approval and a suck up. Maybe someday she'll make a great politician.
Labels: challenges, deployment, family, kids, life at home, parenting
posted by Major Mom at 9:28 PM
Karen is a military wife and stay-at-home mother to a seven-year-old daughter and a five-year-old son. A Boston native who’s lived in the Shreveport-Bossier area for eight years, she spends most of her time volunteering at her kids’ school, supporting her husband, playing with her friends and watching her hair turn gray. In between, she writes about her life here on her blog.
2 Comments:
That is so awesome! My kids do that sometimes and my first response is "What do you want?" I figure if they are sucking up like that they must be getting ready to ask for something major. Especially if it is coming from my 15 yr old son. I feel like it a little more genuine if it come from my girls.
I always say the same thing! She says it in such an ernest way, though. She's going to be an actress. ;-)
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