It was in my first class. I was seven. I had to do those additions: 6+7=12 or 13? 5+8=24 or 23 or 22? I was looking at my fingers, counting, recounting and I was so nervous about these figures. They were turning around in my head. I walked to my teacher, an elderly woman, […]
7.37 a.m. before leaving for school Big boy: “Can I borrow your headphones again?” Little boy: “Why don’t you take yours?” Big boy: “They’re broken. Can I?” Little boy: “No, I don’t give them.” Big boy: “Oh, come on!” Little boy: “You’re always breaking my things.” Big boy: “No, this isn’t […]
Bathroom at 17.31 p.m. Little boy: “Hey, you put on my grey track pants.” Big boy: “No, this isn’t true.” Little boy: “I am sure they are mine.” Big boy: “Come on. You don’t know yours.” Little boy: “I am sure I always put them at the same place.” Big boy: “No, […]
Bathroom at 6.45 a.m.: Big boy: “Why do you look at me this way?” Little boy: “What’s the problem?” Big boy: “Stop starring at me.” Little boy: “Did you get up with the wrong foot?” Big boy: “You look terrible today.” Little boy: “You’re in such a bad mood.” Big […]
I feel so bad. We went to the hairdresser today, and as their father always tells the boys to cut their hair shorter, we did it. Little boy is now running around with his winter woolen hat. He is so ashamed of his look. The picture shows the situation “before”, and it will take […]
Being together with some friends means enjoying life. I don’t need to be very intellectual or very funny. I am just the way I am. I remember when my parents invited their friends, my family had to spend some very dumb hours. My father tried to talk as intelligently as possible. My mother tried to […]
First, he didn’t want to talk. He was three years old when the doctor asked me rather worried whether he was talking at all. I didn’t notice much his incapability because he was the first child. We had to see a speech therapist every week. My boy didn’t like it too much but he went […]
When you have to start your day with a discussion about orange trousers, I guess you have pubescent teenagers in your household, too. If you don’t live with kids, I guess you imagine this discussion rather funny. But I tell you: it is not funny at all. Big boy puts on his younger brother’s trousers […]