In all of the conversation sets about having to say the same things over and over again in the training of our kids, has anyone considered what this constant mental recording is doing to the minds of us parents?  I suspect this regularly recurrent meowing & barking that we parents do comes back to haunt us in old age.  As a single parent I found myself having to say the same things over and over and over again.  I’d say to myself ‘If I have to say that one more time, I’ll scream!  I wonder if this is a nightmare in the making, saying this stuff repeatedly…

As an 80 or 90 year old would I, or do they, shoot straight up in a cold sweat in the bed screaming ‘get up!, get up! get up!, clean your room, clean your room, clean your room!, don’t talk back to me, I’m not one of your little friends!’  Just wondered if this is what’s coming because you’re not just saying it over and over to the kid, you’re also recording it over and over to yourself.  Is this a nightmare for which we have to look out?

I know that at the age I am now, there were life skills people could have shared with me ,who were my age now when I was in my 30s & 40s.  Stuff  I would have liked to have known in detail so that I could have avoided some child behavior problems.  Thing about it is, they didn’t!  So I wonder what the 80 and 90 year olds aren’t telling us 50 & 60 year olds now…

Why risk it?  Why not have modern technology ‘say it for us’!?  I have no interest in jumping up out of the bed as an 80 year old, looking crazy, saying the same crap over and over again because I ‘got’ it and the kid didn’t!

What aren’t the Seniors telling us?