On Wednesday morning, 8.45am, I went to Blossom's parent-teacher conference at school. As I sat down Blossom's teacher (let's call her Ms Frizzle) beamed at me and said "aaah, here is the mother of the girl who runs our classroom".
"Ha Ha" I say "She runs our house as well. In fact she thinks she's Padawan Learner's mother".
I look down on Ms Frizzle's hand-written notes and read the word "Perfectionist?".
"Are you telling me this because you think this is a good thing or a bad thing?" I ask.
"I- I'm not sure" says Ms Frizzle. "I think mostly a good thing. I think. Is she super tidy at home? I mean because children at this age usually don't notice mess"
I think for a moment and the truth is, I don't know. I've always grumped at her to tidy her room so it's always been spotless. But is she naturally like that?
"Ha Ha" I say "She runs our house as well. In fact she thinks she's Padawan Learner's mother".
I look down on Ms Frizzle's hand-written notes and read the word "Perfectionist?".
"Are you telling me this because you think this is a good thing or a bad thing?" I ask.
"I- I'm not sure" says Ms Frizzle. "I think mostly a good thing. I think. Is she super tidy at home? I mean because children at this age usually don't notice mess"
I think for a moment and the truth is, I don't know. I've always grumped at her to tidy her room so it's always been spotless. But is she naturally like that?
So, I'm conducting an experiment. I'm not touching Blossom's room. I'm not going to ask her to tidy it. For as long as I can bear it. Here are the results so far (apologies to true scientists I forgot to take the control picture but believe me she had a VERY tidy room to start with):
edited to say: Oh God, it's getting worse. Now there's Saturday Mess. I.must.keep.strong.
8 comments:
Interesting experiment...
But the truly fascinating data will be how long YOU can hold out.
sounds like a neat experiment but maybe she's too young to know. If you instill in her the things she needs to know first then maybe it'll be more successful. My mom always taught me how to do things right and she never had to tell me twice and since your daughter sounds like the most perfect child I've ever heard, I would say it'll be the same for her.
Yes, but how does she seem? Is she getting twitchy, or cranky?
How lovely that she is the right-hand-girl for her teacher. (I was a bit like that at school too...)(but I did NOT have a neat bedroom)
Stomper: she is not at all twitchy. In fact, I would say she's more relaxed than I've seen her in a while.
Fairlie: I'm going to try to hold out as long as I can. I've even worded Firegazer up on the experiment.
Of course she's fine. It takes all kinds to make up the world. We have perfectinists and those that couldn't give a damne. We need them both for the world to run.
Day THREE? My son's room looks worse than that after 5 minutes. And I exagerate not.
You are so strong. Who ever thought a mother would be GLAD to see mess? That's 3 days into the experiment? I'm with Alice. My two would have the floor completely covered in a matter of minutes. It happens every week.
Yeah I agree with Alice, if Miss Whizzme's room looked like that I would think she had tidied up!! Your little girl must have had a really tidy room to start with. I'm glad though that you can set your mind at rest. It is funny how much we stress ourselves out wanting our kids to be normal. I mean, what is normal anyway?
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