Psychic Mothers?

[Lilyofthevalley]

Some mothers are psychic, they can predict their children’s behavior.
How do you feel when your child does something totally unexpected? For instance does something you would certainly expect their sibling to demonstrate?
One example happened last night: my son was invited to an over night birthday party. At 11:05 p.m he called and mentioned he was having trouble sleeping. I told him to try again and if he could not to call me and I would come get him. I did. I did not expect this from him at all!
The other children were nice to him, but he wanted to come home and sleep in his bed.
Anyway, I was shocked. I am not psychic when it comes to my children’s behavior.

 

[La_Chiara]

Lilyofthevalley:

Some mothers are psychic, they can predict their children’s behavior.
How do you feel when your child does something totally unexpected? For instance does something you would certainly expect their sibling to demonstrate?
One example happened last night: my son was invited to an over night birthday party. At 11:05 p.m he called and mentioned he was having trouble sleeping. I told him to try again and if he could not to call me and I would come get him. I did. I did not expect this from him at all!
The other children were nice to him, but he wanted to come home and sleep in his bed.
Anyway, I was shocked. I am not psychic when it comes to my children’s behavior.

Ummm, psychic is not a very precise term. What you are describing seems to me God’s way of showing us that we are not in control. He is, and we need to keep praying and adapting to what comes our way! God bless.

 

[cove]

Lilyofthevalley:

Some mothers are psychic, they can predict their children’s behavior.
How do you feel when your child does something totally unexpected? For instance does something you would certainly expect their sibling to demonstrate?
One example happened last night: my son was invited to an over night birthday party. At 11:05 p.m he called and mentioned he was having trouble sleeping. I told him to try again and if he could not to call me and I would come get him. I did. I did not expect this from him at all!
The other children were nice to him, but he wanted to come home and sleep in his bed.
Anyway, I was shocked. I am not psychic when it comes to my children’s behavior.

It seems to me that your mommy “intuition” is working and what is really bothering you is that something may have triggered this sudden change in your child. The other kids may have been nice but someone may have displayed behavior that he was not comfortable with.

I dropped my daughter off at a birthday party one evening. By the time I got home she was calling me to come and get her. I asked her if she was OK. “Yes”, she said but she and one of her friends wanted to leave. After I picked them up she revealed to me that some of the girls where going outside with some of the guys and there was some very explicit dancing going on. She suspected that the kids outside were drinking and smoking. This was the party of a girl she had been a Girl Scout with and I knew the mother from girl scouting days. This was not a scenario that I had predicted because I thought I knew these people. She thought that it was an all girl party and that they would be playing games, watching movies and eating junk food. My daughter was pretty disappointed and decided this was not her scene. Her friend that I brought home is a boy from our church (she did not expect to see him there).

Your son just may be displaying good judgement.

 

[Lilyofthevalley]

La, thank-you!

cove, I asked him in many ways, did anyone make you uncomfortable? What’s happened?
He basically said, he was tired wanted to sleep and the guys were watching a video “Scooby-Doo 2”.
I suppose he is going through many changes, public school etc. so maybe it was too much. THe children were a good bunch of kids. You know “the guys”.

 

[catsrus]

When my kids were under 12 years of age, I always knew what the little dickens were thinking and doing. After the age of 12 they disappeared into some weird parallel teen world that I did not have the mommy psychic ability to cross into. I had to work at it!! Gee, I sure was glad when they crossed back over and became adults. I can figure them out again.

 

[puzzleannie]

my grandmother warned my mother, and my mother warned me, look out for your “good” kid, that is the one that will surprise you. If you are contemplating a change in family life–move, job change etc–that will have a big impact on your kids, I guarantee that the problems you anticipate based on your knowledge of your kids, probably will not arise. Your problems will come from directions you never anticipated, probably from the kid you thought would be best able to handle the change. Never underestimate their power to surprise you.