Do as I say not as I do!

Isn't it funny how we can show our try and teach our kiddos something over and over and over and it never seems like they will get it, but the minute you do something you don't want your kid to mimic they do it with no problem?  Why is that??  We have been potty training Carter for a while now, he gets it (I pull down my pants and pee-pee then I get a sticker hooray!) I'm super proud, but THE KID ABSOLUTELY REFUSES TO POOP ON THE POTTY! I swear he thinks that it's going to come back up and bite him in the hiney! So anyhow that's a whole other subject...my point was he will pick up on something totally random!? Like today for instance Carter wanted to hold his sister and read her a book.  As you can see from the photo below Emmy Grace had other plans, like to get the heck out of dodge!  So he follows her around the entire room trying to tackle her, then randomly pulls down her diaper half way and said "shoooweeee sissy did you poop?" Then he proceeds to sniff her butt like a dog!   I can tell him no throwing at your sister 500 times a day (literally this is no joke) and he doesn't listen, but yet he will sniff her butt to see if she pooped? It's mind blowing I tell ya! Now I can tell you he has seen me sniff her to see if she pooped (we all do the sniff test on our kids right?)


                                                             going in for the sniff

It really does crack me up on the things Carter picks up on and even Emmy Grace already! Carter will tell our dogs to hush or they're going into the garage, but then he will surprise us and say or sing something we have sang or said to him once and here he goes repeating the song in it's entirety (his version).  Then I will catch Emmy Grace with her tiny little hands folded as we say the blessing or when we say our prayers or I will catch her really wanting to do what her brother is not supposed to be doing like climbing a book shelf or the playhouse!

 

 This just proves that old saying "do as I say not as I do." We as parents can say that until were blue in the face, but we all know that in reality our kids will do as they see us do! We have to set a good example for our kids and if we don't want them to do certain things we don't need to be doing them either! If we want them to know right for wrong we also need to lead by example, and show them right, then we can teach them about our wrong to help guide them to not making the same mistakes we did growing up, and as adults! We all make mistakes, but we should let our kids make their own mistakes and not sit back and watch them make ours!


~Kristin