Advantages of living with a forgetful Mum


Brat’s school was celebrating Republic Day on Monday, the 28th. A notice was sent on Friday to inform parents about this. I read the notice on Friday, and well, Monday was another day!

Monday morning while the Brat was getting dressed for school, she seemed to have a funny feeling that something was not in place, she checked with me, “Mama, what day is it, what should I wear to school today?” Me: “Red uniform Darling, now please hurry up”.

All dressed and well in time, we reached the bus stop, the bus arrived, and children in the bus were happily dressed (some of them, very imaginatively, I must say) to celebrate Republic Day. Brat got into the bus, turned around and gave me a dirty look.

Having done some such thing not very few times in the past, I prepared myself for the fuss to follow after the Brat got home. She fussed briefly, a long time after she got back from school, and I got a feeling she didn’t care much. I was secretly relieved.

Tuesday morning, while getting dressed for school, she quickly walked to check her schedule (the husband, being well aware of memory lapses in his aging wife, dutifully puts all notices from school on the tack board in her room).She carefully checked, but couldn’t find anything for the 29th. She checked again and then decided to go ahead with the regular school uniform. All this without saying a word to me!

Turns out, after giving her Mum enough opportunity, the brat has decided to take over her life. Yes, I did get a jolt, but, hey, I have empowered the kid! Creating opportunities to learn early on!
Now, this is what I call thoughtful parenting!

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