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azurelunatic) wrote2001-10-21 11:59 pm
azurelunatic) wrote2001-10-21 11:59 pm
Role Model
I think Votania slightly underestimates the effect she's got on Nephew. She knows she's his mother and all, but I don't think she realizes quite the extent of his modeling behavior.
Today at lunch I watched Votania drop a potato chip, pick it up, blow it off (dropping stuff on the floor is not a great health problem, except the occasional cat hair in the back of the throat) and eat it.
Later on in this same meal, Nephew dropped a peanut. Much to my amusement, he mimicked Mommy's exact actions, down to looking in her direction to see if she was looking.
This wouldn't be so bad if it were only she that he was copying from. He's in day care now, so Mommy can work, and ever since he started going there, he's been coming home with bad behavior. Apparently parents in this neighborhood don't enforce any decent standards of behavior with their children.
Since the kid is a rational being now, I'm going to start trying to track down the roots of the disturbing behaviors with him, and then explain to him exactly why those people he is modeling from are shitty role models.
Using, of course, different language.
Lately, Nephew's been such a mimic. Now is the time for us to be on our best behavior, and hope he picks it up...
Today at lunch I watched Votania drop a potato chip, pick it up, blow it off (dropping stuff on the floor is not a great health problem, except the occasional cat hair in the back of the throat) and eat it.
Later on in this same meal, Nephew dropped a peanut. Much to my amusement, he mimicked Mommy's exact actions, down to looking in her direction to see if she was looking.
This wouldn't be so bad if it were only she that he was copying from. He's in day care now, so Mommy can work, and ever since he started going there, he's been coming home with bad behavior. Apparently parents in this neighborhood don't enforce any decent standards of behavior with their children.
Since the kid is a rational being now, I'm going to start trying to track down the roots of the disturbing behaviors with him, and then explain to him exactly why those people he is modeling from are shitty role models.
Using, of course, different language.
Lately, Nephew's been such a mimic. Now is the time for us to be on our best behavior, and hope he picks it up...