Hilarious Moments 8
I continue the epistle of funny moments that occurred in my household; some parenting moments, some teaching moments, some questions to ponder and many more. Enjoy the ride.
Mum The Law Giver
My kids are the official reporters of events. They give you the unfiltered series of events. Now they love football and it is the World Cup Season. For any match that I miss, immediately I hit the door, I get the official summary from two guys who compete to complete each other’s sentences.
This goes for instructions that are passed down during my absence.
“Guys, let’s go for a bicycle ride”
“Dad, Mum has grounded us. Nobody can ride a bike again”
I am always fine with that until one day I came from the office and stormed the fridge to munch whatsoever was available. I picked an apple and two guys chorused “Dad, mum said that NOBODY should touch that apple”.
That was the moment of truth. What do I do ? Do I disobey mum ? Why can’t these kids know that some rules are not meant for the adults ? Brethren I just left the apple there and went my way. I can’t be seen as disobeying mum.
There is a happy ending to the story. I waited for mum to come back and she brought me the apple. He who has mum has the apple. QED.
You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know
Everything in my house is owned by mum. Mum’s cup, Mum’s TV, Mum’s Table etc. I don’t own anything and I am fine with that. He that has Mum has everything. That is my philosophy. Until something happened one day.
My routine after work is simple. Come back from work. Eat. Chat with the family. Catch up with the news. Pray with the family. Everyone goes to their room but Dad is always left in the sitting room on his favourite carpet. I love my carpet. I do most of my reading, calls, writing, whatsoever from there.
I keep hearing my sons talk about Mum’s room and their room and so one day I asked them “Where is Dad’s room ?” and instinctively, they pointed to the carpet. “That is Dad’s room ” they said with assured confidence and enthusiasm. I had to take them into our room and showed them that my things are there and that moi and mum are the owners of the room. “But you sleep on the carpet” they fired back.
Nna, from that day onward, after night prayers, I stylishly follow mum to our room and come back after about 15 minutes to the living room in order to continue whatsoever I was doing. One has to be careful before these children will think that they were made wirelessly.
No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement. — Florida Scott-Maxwell
Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother. — Beverly Jones
An ounce of mother is worth a ton of clergy — Spanish Proverb
I don’t want to sleep as a baby. I want to sleep like my husband — Mothers Of The World.
You Don’t Read
I was encouraging my kids to read the other day but they told me that I do not live out what I preach. They said I do not read. I wondered where they got that from. We argued back and forth without any convincing on both parts. I dug in deeper to know where the orientation came from. As usual, there was a ready made answer “Dad, you don’t read because you are always on the computer”. This was deep insight.
I took the young men to see the things that I do from the laptop. I showed them my e-books and body of work. I know they were not convinced. I know that look of “We are only saying “yes” because you are our father”.
Since I lost that war, I now read normal hard copy books. And you can imagine what happened. They came to me and said “Now Daddy has started reading”. I have no words for them. They should be happy that my father is not their father. Because if my father was their father the thought of saying that will not be formed in their minds. It will be in gaseous state.
But I learned one important thing from these two episodes. Be mindful of what you do around children because it may be misunderstood and you can’t blame them because they are interpreting the information as it comes to them. I am sure for my kids, computers are for computer games.
Mr Edison
One of those days we were talking about scientific inventions and things that shaped humanity. I took on the task of explaining electricity and then brought it down to the light bulb. I am one of those that was fascinated with Thomas Edison, the inventor. They seemed to have enjoyed it and I asked if there was any question.
My second son, Colourful , then asked a poignant question “Dad, you mean Thomas Edison invented and sold to us this very bulb on top of my head ?” I said “No”. He went on to tell me that he wants to know the exact person that manufactured the bulb we were using. I explained to him that there are now many manufacturers and it is now different from Edison’s time. He kept at his question. I proceeded to say the night prayers. Maybe he should ask God. Good night.
In case you enjoyed this, I have other hilarious moments that I have captured before. Here they are: Hilarious Moments Of Life, More Hilarious Moments (II), Hilarious Moments III , Much More Hilarious Moments IV, Hilarious Moments V , Hilarious Moments VI and most recently The Hilarity Of The Drive (VII)
If you enjoyed this article, please give it some claps and share it around on the socials! Feel free to leave a comment below!
Regards, Gabriel.
