Have you ever noticed as soon as you start talking about your child's habits, they change. I have to stop talking about my kids. This is my conclusion. The minute I say, "Child X hasn't blank in days.", blank will occur. Fill in what you please. Woken up all night, thrown up, been sick, had an ear/eye infection, gotten out of bed at night...
I don't know if our kids understand us when we talk about them, or if we are just not allowed to talk about them (some form of karmic justice). Acknowledging the jinx phenomenon does not unjinx you. Once you've opened your mouth to express your joy over being able to sleep through the night, you regret it. You want to chase those words down and get them back because you know tonight you will be up five times to nurse a crying baby.
Of course, we never learn. We want to tell our friends and family all about our children's achievements and milestones. We know talking about them will inevitably cause us grief, but we still do it. Ah, the ever changing habits of our children are part of the "fun" of being a parent, aren't it? Or, maybe we just like to tempt fate.
Whatever the reason, we will all end up talking about what our kids are currently doing, and our kids will all decide to prove us wrong, for a day or so. Then, things will go back to "normal", or at least livable.
Hopefully, you get your 8 hours of sleep tonight, and your kids stay in their own rooms until morning, and don't wake up too early. Yikes, I am really asking for it!
Oh I have been jinxed by this one many a time. And its so true. As soon as the words have left my lips I have changed the course of time. And I never learn. I just want to talk about them. It's so often that you get caught up in the bad things or difficult things their doing. So when something good is happening you just want to scream it from the roof tops!! And thats when it gets you. All the childhood karma that our parents wished upon us when we were being difficult now comes back to us two fold!
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