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My friend Shlomit is here visiting for the weekend with her husband and kids. We thought it would be great fun to take the kids strawberry picking this morning, before it got too hot out.
We thought wrong.
Emily mostly whined. "It's too hot out here...this is boring...how long until we go home...I can't find any berries..." Until, finally, she put her hands on her hips and screamed from the end of her row "I want you to take me home THIS MINUTE!" We'll be talking about that later, you can be sure.
Clearly the inheritor of his father's shitty attitude about fruit picking as fun excursion genes, Jonah simply spent his time making it clear that he thought the entire endeavor just plain sucked.
I, on the other hand, was perfectly happy stuffing ripe sun-warmed berries into my mouth.
Next year, I'm hiring a sitter and leaving them home.
Posted by volfie at July 6, 2003 11:58 AMi want you to tape the "discussion" you and emily end up having about her behavior. i'm dying to hear it.
It went fine, actually. We talked about how I try to plan fun things for us to do, but that not every single one will be a success. Then we talked about how, even if she's not having fun, she can't talk to me like that. Then she went to a 15 minute (NOW is it time???) time out in the living room.
Posted by: terry on July 6, 2003 07:29 PMUh-oh - I probably painted a too-idyllic picture of the strawberry picking adventure I took my kids on a month or so ago.
They both decided it wasn't any fun fairly quickly this time around, alas, and we won't be repeating the excursion next year as a family, either.
And here's another family-friendly outing to cross off my list for a few years: our local blues festival (or any outdoor music festival, for that matter).
Posted by: betsy on July 7, 2003 04:56 PM
