We went out to dinner last weekend at Olive Garden. Although my kids would rather go elsewhere, my hubby and I love it there. He especially loves Olive Garden because they have pepperoncini in their salads.
Now, it’s not that he likes peppers, in fact, he hates them. What he DOES like [love!] to do is taunt our almost-12-year-old daughter with pepperoncini-eating dares, such as:
“Eat four of these peppers soaked in Tabasco Sauce and I’ll take you to GameStop“.
All I do is give her the “look”. The “look” says “You would be flipping CRAZY to listen to your father at this moment – but if you do it, negotiate a hell of a lot more out of him than a simple trip to GameStop!!”.
Thankfully, she didn’t do it (but only because my hubby wasn’t willing to give her $100). What she DID do next, though, really caught me off guard.
She prefaced a question she wanted to ask with, “Please don’t blog this mom, but…”
And then she proceeded to ask me an embarrassing question.
Lest you think I am going to spill the beans on her, I’m not. But the question was rather anti-climatic – one of those things that would only bother a 12-year old anyway.
It was one of those time/brain-twisting moments when I realized I couldn’t even conceive of having this kind of conversation with my own mother when I was 12! I didn’t really know how to react because I had NO references in my own experience to respond to a kid who didn’t want her embarrassing moments blogged about for the world to see!
It got me wondering about what our kids will be capable of when they are sitting in the middle of a restaurant with their own 12 year olds in the future.
If little Alexandra McDaniel (via) is setting the pace for our children, us parents had better get our game on!
And I’m curious – all you parents out there – what do your kids think of your blogs? Do they even care? Do any of them maintain their own blogs? And how has blogging impacted family life? Please share!!