Daddy Was In Mommy's Belly?

I think children can sense a storm coming, just like animals can and that’s why you see them behaving out of control prior to a storm.

What a wild week.

There is a belief that playing classical music in the background where children are present instills a calmness and peaceful nature in them. That is only when it is not raining, thundering, snowing or…sunny out. It is pretty much not true. Okay maybe I am exaggerating a bit. It probably does help mellow them more so than having a Dora or Wiggles video on or having loud blaring rock and roll music playing. My point is, that the music in the background in a preschool setting whereby there are more than let’s say three children, does not influence their behavior whatsoever. 

What influences their behavior is the presence of each other. Children bounce off of each others energy and if just one is feeling frisky, they all eventually get riled up until the room sounds like a roller coaster ride. That’s when they feel compelled to scream and run with no purpose except to hear themselves scream.

Yes this happened this week, almost every day. I can say that when the children are unable to have recess time because of the weather, they are more likely to find reasons to run and scream inside. Naturally, since that is what they do outside and most children by nature typically love to scream.

Question: Why does a child think that the tissues from the tissue boxes are recyclable? I cannot tell you how many times a day I find snotty used tissues stuffed back into the tissue boxes. Blecck.

Aside from my ears ringing all week, as we had no option for recess, there were moments of hysterical laughter.

Did you know that if you ask almost any preschool age child where they came from they will answer “From my mommy’s belly.”

And if you also ask, who else was in their mommy’s belly, they will answer by listing their family members beginning with their siblings and including dad.

Okay that’s too funny.

I get the giggles from this every time. Almost every child thinks this, up until maybe the age six.

Do you think it has anything to do with the dad’s stereo-typical role in the family?

Is it because mom is seen getting the children ready for school, working, picking up the children, making dinner, doing all those care taking things that it just seems natural that she must also have carried dad in her belly, as if he is one of the kids?

I wonder if a study is done, asking those children whose dad’s are the caretakers, who do the laundry, cooking, driving to school type chores, whether the child would think dad had mommy in his belly?