Soooo…the other day my daughter and her friend were in her room playing this “Party Truth or Dare” game that she got as a b-day gift. It’s kid version so there’s no “I dare you to give so-and-so a lap dance” kind of stuff going on—well, not that I know of—I mean I didn’t look at EVERY card.
Anyway, my daughter and her friend are reading the cards and giggling and asking each other questions and then a question comes up that reads something like “Name one thing you’ve done that your parents don’t know about” and my daughter answers something not all that bad (but that I definitely didn’t know about) and they giggle some more and her friend says conspiratorially, “Your mom doesn’t know about that?” and before I knew it, the words were coming out of my mouth…
“I do NOW” I said loud enough for them to hear me,.
*crickets*
And then the door curtly closes shut.
And I sat here wondering why the hell I couldn’t keep my big mouth shut, particularly since this is just the beginning of such things.
OMFGIAMSTUPIDSTUPIDSTUPID.
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I tried to find a non-pervy truth or dare image for this post and uh…I don’t think those exist. Let’s just say the internet is clearly MADE for perverts and if you are one of them and came here via some gross Google search, I hope you were totally disappointed.
My daughter is 9 months old. I have approximately 9 years to memorize this post.
Commit it to memory and never, ever forget that maternal silence is golden (if you ever want to know what your kids are really up to). This nugget of wisdom has been confirmed by my stepmother who has confessed to eavesdroping on multiple occasions during my teen years and apparently knew WAY more about my life than I ever thought she did. She’s a crafty one, that woman…
I’m pretty sure that I’ll never be able to keep my mouth shut when that happens to me in the future, I can’t keep it shut now!:)
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Clearly, it was hard for me to keep my big yap shut, although I knew the second I opened it, that it was a dumb thing to do. Ahhh well, live and learn, I guess.
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I dare you to eavesdrop without your daughter catching on…
Ah well.
She already gets on the phone, goes in her room and closes the door. I’m pretty sure she’s keenly aware of my big ears most of the time, save for the Truth or Dare incident in which I foolishly clued her in *kicks self*
Uh oh.
Heh. Yeah, I can’t keep my mouth shut either. But at least she knows I’m listening? (I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or not)
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