Sometimes I wonder. I'm sure everyone wonders, but sometimes I wonder if other people wonder in such different ways than me so as to make me look strange, making them look normal.
Lately I wonder if I would be able to let my kids actually grow up. I'm still in the mode where all those "adult content" things should and will never be seen by them. I'm not talking about the really grown up stuff. Just normal things like "kissing in bed"...EEEK! And since I see my own kids as not knowing those things, I think that all kids that dont say they know those things, actually dont know those things.
Now I'm beginning to wonder. Wonder when I have to have that "talk". Wonder when I have to worry about accidentally walking in on something I don't want to see!! AAAck!!
And I still treat them like little kids. Asking them if they need to use the restroom (I have switched from saying potty). Telling them not to do this or that cause they could get hurt, which, sure, sounds like a good rule of thumb. But I wonder if by not letting them scratch themselves up with a minor boo-boo prevents them from learning the limits of their own bodies. I wonder if it keeps them from being a "kid".
I'm beginning to wonder if wondering is worry's cousin or its reflection in the mirror. And then I know that I'm normal, for now.
:-)
