21 Questions for my Children – A Mother’s Day Reflection

I lifted this from the excellent clothesline.ie many years ago. What can I say? Some posts are in gestation longer than others. The smaller your children are, the better it works. Some of these thoughts are from a long time ago and things have definitely moved on on the sock front.

Younger

• 1. Why would you use your sock as a bookmark?
• 2. Is there a reason you store socks behind the bookshelf in your room?
• 3. Why is your duvet on the kitchen floor?
• 4. Why do you choose to read lying on the floor behind the sofa?

Older

• 5. Why have you chosen to ignore my advice about needing a coat on your school tour to Munich in winter?
• 6. What do you do with protractors? Is there a black market for them?
• 7. Is there any chance we might have more than half an hour’s notice that GAA training is on this evening?
• 8. Will anyone answer my WhatsApp messages? Or my texts? Or my calls?
• 10. Why do you need 25 different dice? And why are they all ten sided?
• 11. Why would you only tell me on the morning we are leaving on a skiing holiday that you only own one pair of waterproof shoes and these have a hole?

Now

• 12. Why are you getting up at 4 in the morning to complete your assignment?
• 13. When will you be home for dinner? Will you be home for dinner? In fact
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  , will we ever have family dinner together again during the week?
• 14. Do you have plans for the summer? Do they involve coming on holidays with me? Will you be in a position to let me know before the price of flights becomes stratospheric?
• 15. How many of your primary school books do you think you need to keep now that you are in university?
• 16. Would you not like to come on a walk with your parents? [Taking me back to my school days – Latin num expecting the answer “No”]
• 17. What are you up to over there in England?
• 18. Will you ever come home?
• 19. How is it that you are all adults now?
• 20. Have you everything you need to make your way in the world?
• 21. Do you still love your Mama?