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Well we finally achieved it. After several practice runs to the emergency rooms over the past couple of years we finally made the big time and got checked in to the wards.Little Miss managed to run some pretty good temperatures and got to spend two nights in the hospital attached to a drip and all [...]
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It is official, I am finally willing to call it - I am a competent father. Hooray for me. I am pretty sure I can look after the kids without either of them being in either grave physical, emotional or developmental danger.
Being frank they have probably never been at much risk of any of these [...]
Well it is back to the daily grind for all of us here. After a calender month off work (my longest break ever that didn’t involve a new baby - well not yet lol) it’s now time to return to the ratrace.
Not only is it time for me to head back to work, but it [...]
Well, aren’t we just a couple of very bad parents, possibly the worst parents in the world - well with the exception of all those parents that physically scar their children (we only tend to scar them emotionally).
Today we topped even ourselves. It was end of year party time at Little Miss’ daycare centre. If [...]
Wife rang today almost in tears, the reason for once was nothing to do with me being insensitive, but instead had to do with the fact that Little Miss had not beein invited to a birthday party. Apparently this isn’t the first time this had happened but the third.
Little Miss had also noticed that she [...]
Wife rang today almost in tears, the reason for once was nothing to do with me being insensitive, but instead had to do with the fact that Little Miss had not beein invited to a birthday party. Apparently this isn’t the first time this had happened but the third.
Little Miss had also noticed that she wasn’t invited and had start to ask the questions about why she hadn’t been invited to her friends party? So what exactly do you tell a 3 year old?
So far we have gone with things like ‘you can’t invite everyone’ or ‘they are turning 5 so they are only inviting people there age’ and stuff like that.
But I know deep in my heart that a couple of times the reason she hasn’t been invited has quite a bit to do with her shyness. If you are always on the fringes and not completely engaged with the social group at times you will be missed out, or you will consider someone a friend whereas they will see you as an acquaintance. It is the way of the world.
Of course I came up with other reasons for wife - mainly along the lines of these peopel never came to Little Miss’ party, and all the parties we go to are the same group of kids, and these aren’t any of them. But again I know it is only part of the situation.
What made today’s harder to deal with is the girl whose party it is really is someone that Little Miss considered to be a friend. She is always talking about playing with her at Carinya, and certainly is in her top 5 as far as friends go.
So in summary life is going to be full of these little let downs, and I am going to have to work on how I explain it to Little Miss and sooth Wife at the same time. So if you have any suggestions on how to deal with it all, I am all ears.
UPDATE: When wife picked up Little Miss from daycare this afternoon she had with her an invite to the party - crisis averted. On the downside we will be away when it is on anyway so she can’t go anyway.
So to ensure she gets some social outings this weekend I am taking her to one of the birthday parties for a friend of mine. It starts midday Saturday and ends Monday sometime, but I don’t think we will stay quite that long - hopefully Little Miss will engage and not just watch. Then again Wife is probably thinking the same thing about me - 
