I Said Something Stupid. My Kids Remembered

A four-day lesson in humility, delivered by people under four feet tall

Last Wednesday. Bedroom.

I was sitting on the bed and and my kids were playing around.

My oldest decided to go to her room and get a stuffy.

Then I heard a thump against the laundry door.

“OUCH!!”

I could hear my eldest complain about the door and how her arm was throbbing.

Me, being a smartass decided to say something sarcastic.

“Baby, the door was always there. You have to be careful when you walk love”

Fast forward 4 days and we are getting ready to go to an dinner.

Its 5pm and I’m ironing everyone’s clothes.

We are late.

I hear my wife asking me to give the kids clothes in our room.

So i left the iron on the ironing platform, steaming away and grabbed, atleast by my standards, a nicely ironed shalwar kameez (tradition garment).

Once I laid the clothes on our bed, I walked back towards the, now steaming iron.

BANG -

“OUCH —-Bumbaclute!!”

I controlled my self from dropping anything super profane ( Atleast that was until i learned what Bumbaclute really meant - ya’ll can google it yourself 😅).

“Baba, are you okay“ - my eldest asked me from the room.

Me still nursing my bruised arm, replied “ Yes meri Jaan “ ( yes my love).

“ I just hurt myself on the door handle“.

“Well baba you know .. the door was always there“.

And i just started laughing - She remembered exactly what I had told her when she hurt her arm.

But then i saw my youngest walk out of our room.

“ Baba where did you get hurt?“.

I showed her my arm.

And then next thing i see is my youngest caressing my now red arm.

and she gently kissed it.

“Its okay baba. it’ll get better soon”.

Kids are amazing.