Expectations
Jaimie on Sep 16th 2008
Before I had kids, I just knew that my children would be the polite, well-behaved ones. Because they just would. I am awesome, and I would be an awesome parent. Of course. And because of that, my children would be model little people when appropriate and never ever embarrass me with their behavior.
And then, well, I had kids. You can stop laughing now. 
Today at taekwondo class, I had a new prospective student try it out who is not quite 3. We usually have kids wait until they are at least 3, but his brother is also a student with me and he is close to 3, so we tried it.
And who behaved better and paid attention more in class? The not quite three year old, or CJ. You guess. I’ll give you a hint, it wasn’t CJ. 
Of all my pre-child-having expectations, this is the one that I am having the hardest time letting go of. I can’t just will my children through some kind of mind meld to act appropriately at all times. But really, I think I should be able to.
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Ahhh, I relate !
Why is it that our ‘perfect’ children sometimes act like ______.
And sometimes they are angels- usually when no one else is around