You know how you get to that point where you think you are doing okay as a parent. The madam is four now so she is goes to the toilet herself, feeds herself, mostly sleeps well, is a fairly nice kid so I probably became a little complacent.
Yesterday changed all that....
It was pay day, and as usual the pay didn't go in until five, so it was a late dash to the shops. I had one grumpy four year old in tow so I tried to make it as quick and painless as possible. I even pulled the bribery - ' If you are good I'll buy...' card - yes it was not a classy parent day.
Now to understand what happened next you probably need to know a bit about us. The Mr has tattoos, my sister is tattooed, my friends have tattoos, my brother & sister in laws are tattooed, we have tattoo art in our house - I have taken the Madam to numerous tattoo parlours in search of someone to do one for me. She is surrounded my tattooed people, hippies, conservative what have you!
She walks down the supermarket and spots a stunning girl who is covered head to toe in tattoos with long dreads and proceeds to say at top volume,
" What did you draw on yourself? Girls shouldn't have tattoos just Daddy's"
Needless to say I apologised and tore out of there at top speed with the Madam still at full volume now going
" Mum I knew she was a girl cause she had big boobies like you"
Yes I followed that situation up with a lecture about inappropriate behaviour, everyones right to look how they want and why on earth did she think it was so strange when everyone we know has tattoos....
Then I remembered apart from the fact it was just 'one of those moments we had also recently seen the reigning conservative female in our lives - now I know why those visits are few and far between.
* My lesson: Don't take her shopping after 4pm, if I don't want her to say something she will say it, she takes everything in so try and override the negative with SO MUCH more cool things*
