This is the nineteenth prompt for Just Jot it January 2025. Today, our prompt comes to us from the wonderful Willow. Thank you, Willow! You can visit her here Willow’s blog and say hello.
Your prompt for JusJoJan January 19th, 2025 is “why.” Use it any way you’d like. Have fun!
Here is my "Why?" child.
Matthew is my middle child. When he was young he went through a stage of really pushing my buttons by constantly asking "Why?" I always tried to give an answer as best I could but then he would question that answer with another "Why?" and so on and on and on..... I'm sure you get the picture.
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| Matthew, pictured just after becoming a Dad. |
He would really try my patience. I always tried to answer his questions without resorting to "Because I said so!" although I did often end up saying "because it just is" for example. I think we're alike in a lot of ways, both stubborn but we can also persevere with things.
His saving grace was that, although during the day he would push me to the limits of my patience he was the best sleeper of my 3. He went to bed, he went to sleep, he stayed asleep.
He might have driven me to distraction but he's grown into a man and now father that I'm proud of and, before I get protests from my other two children I'm actually proud of how they've all turned out. I can take some credit for that but my Hubby and I worked as a team and we had a great family network that all contributed and thankfully my kids also made good life choices, particularly with their partners and friends.
And actually, it's good to ask "Why?"
A sweet post Wendy. :-) Thank you for sharing.
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My girls used to say 'how becomes'' instead of why for a few years. I don't know exactly where that came from but it was super cute. Glad you've raised some wonderful adults!
ReplyDeleteI think we all know one of those "why" people and being curious is a good thing. I enjoyed your post and love the photo of your why-child with his child!! xo
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