Ever wonder what your child thinks of you?
There’s this game going around Facebook where you ask each of your kids a list of questions and see how they compare. I can’t resist a good time waster challenge, so I got right to it.
Some of the answers made me cringe (1-3), some made me smile (17, 19, and 20) and some just downright confused me (a decent number of Goosie’s answers).
Anyway, here’s what we came up with. I wonder how their answers will be different in ten years!
Kid’s ages
Magoo: 7
Goosie: 4
1. What is something your mom always says to you?
Magoo: Can you clean up the room?
Goose: Go outside. Go outside. Go outside.
2. What makes mom happy?
Magoo: When we surprise you and clean up the room and you don’t tell us to.
Goose: I clean up the whole house.
3. What makes mom sad?
Magoo: When we don’t clean up the living room when you say to.
Goose: That I don’t clean up the house.
4. How does your mom make you laugh?
Magoo: When you tickle us.
Goose: By tickling me
5. What was your mom like as a child?
Magoo: Helpful and responsible
Goose: She likes me
6. How old is your mom?
Magoo: 37
Goose: 17
7. How tall is your mom?
Magoo: 6 feet
Goose: 16 feet
8. What is her favorite thing to do?
Magoo: Spend time with us and read to us
Goose: Play with me
9. What does your mom do when you’re not around?
Magoo: Read
Goose: You look for me. [I love this answer]
10. If your mom becomes famous, what will it be for?
Magoo: Reading with her kids so much
Goose: Because if I tell you to play outside, you would get jealous
11. What is your mom really good at?
Magoo: Reading
Goose: Making art with me
12. What is your mom not very good at?
Magoo: When someone has to go to another place. If we have sleepovers you can’t handle it very much.
Goose: A really, really bad animal
13. What does your mom do for a job?
Magoo: Takes care of us
Goose: Read princess books to me
14. What is your mom’s favorite food?
Magoo: Mashed potatoes and gravy and turkey. Like Thanksgiving
Goose: Cereal
15. What makes you proud of your mom?
Magoo: Tha you are my mom
Goose: Because I like you
16. If your mom were a character, who would she be?
Magoo: Cinderella because you help us and Cinderella helps people. And because you love your family and Cinderella does too.
Goose: Brave
17. What do you and your mom do together?
Magoo: Read. She helps me with my homework.
Goose: Play games
18. How are you and your mom the same?
Magoo: We both like a lot of things.
Goose: Because you are the best mommy in the whole wide world.
19. How are you and your mom different?
Magoo: She thinks potty jokes are weird and I think they are funny.
Goose: Because we read together and have fun.
20. How do you know your mom loves you?
Magoo: Because you always say you love us when we get sad or angry.
Goose: You hug me.
21. What does your mom like most about your dad?
Magoo: That he goes to work instead of you and you get to relax and stay here.
Goose: That you married him.
22. Where is your mom’s favorite place to go?
Magoo: Grandma’s house because she likes to see her mother.
Goose: Walmart with me. [Side note: There are very few places in the world I detest more than Walmart. About the only one I can think of is a rundown gas station bathroom in the middle of nowhere with no toilet paper and black sink handles.]
23. How old was your mom when you were born?
Magoo: 31
Goose: Five-teen
I try not to write too specifically about my kids. I try to keep their privacy even as I forgo my own. But these answers just made me smile and think, and I would like to keep them for them to look back on when they are older.
Especially about that comment that I get to just sit around and relax all day. It was super relaxing today – especially as I was being vomited all over and everyone was asking me for more breakfast as I slipped around in the mess trying to catch the rest of it that was coming at me. Such serenity.