The other day King Kev did a post about cutting his mother's apron strings (read here) and Menomama has just done an interesting post about mother and child relationships (see here)
These reminded me of a recent conversation between my Daughter (pictured below) and my Granddaughter (pictured scores of times before).
Aimée (aged 6) asked her Mummy "why do grown ups make all the rules". This was accompanied by the usual "it's not fair". I butted in and said that even grown ups have to obey rules. Aimée didn't seem convinced about that.
Anyway my Daughter suggested that Aimée could be a grown up for a day and get up when she wanted and go to bed when she wanted; sort out what she was going to wear and what she was going to eat etc. This seemed to go down well until her Mummy said "of course this means you don't get cuddles and a bedtime story from me".
The subject was duly closed and the status quo was achieved.
It's a hard life.
2008-07-28 @ 12:28