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.

Have you ever had your kid throw your own words back at you in a way that made you stop and think? What happened? I’d love to hear about it.