Recently, some friends, my son (Daijon) and myself stopped by KFC to get some food. Apparently, the attendants and myself had a little fallout over poor service. Usually, when I am upset I can't eat, so I decided that I won't eat until I had calmed down. Immediately, Daijon just shut up his box. I asked him if he wasn't going to eat and he said no. He said he wasn't hungry.
This surprised me as he was complaining earlier about being hungry. I tried questioning him about what had happened by asking him if he wasn't eating because I was upset. He said, "no." I laid interrogating him to rest and started talking to my friends.
After feeling more relaxed and less angry I started picking up some fries and eating, laughing whilst eating also. I noticed that Daijon started doing the same thing. He picked his chicken up and just started putting big bites into it.
I marveled at this. My son refused to eat, because of the chemistry I gave off. It really made me sit and think, hard. Our kids know more than we give them credit for. They observe the way we treat others and even how we conduct ourselves in our daily lives.
Many a time I think we are to be blamed for what our kids become as adolescence and adults at large. Sometimes we deny it and say we did all we had to do which includes ensuring a roof over their heads, they eat well, go to the best schools and give them all the things our money can buy, but what about our attitude towards them and others? Even towards the way we treat ourselves?
Just something to think about, real, hard.
Johanna Denny,
Entrepreneur & Vlogger
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