My Strange Kids

"I'm not eating sweeties ever again because I want to get energy!". This, coming from my five-year-old, the same one who screamed at me for 2 hours yesterday (it may have been only ten minutes but it felt like two hours, she has very powerful lungs, that one) because I would not give her a "sweetie" before her dinner, sounds very strange.

I give her about two hours before she comes to me saying something along the lines of "I am tired of having energy so now I want a sweetie".

Kids can be funny sometimes, or maybe it's just mine, like take my 7 (almost 8) years-old. When she's in school she's a model student, her teacher told me she's very shy, she'd put up her hand to answer a question but apart from that she hardly talks in class. This sounds almost perfect except that as soon as she comes home she drives me around the bend running and shouting, talking back, making fun of her sister and it's a nightmare to bring them both to any shop or other place where there's a waiting room involved. Why can't she just release more of her energy in school so she's tired when she comes home?

And what about my five year-old who comes to talk to me sometimes, whether it's about something she did in school or something she's just seen on TV, it's really funny the way she starts skipping sideways around the kitchen table, as if she can't have a conversation sitting down or standing; the other day I decided to follow her around the kitchen table (I was walking because I'm too old to skip) but I had to stop because I started feeling dizzy.

Anyway, it doesn't matter how weird or naughty my kids can get, when I creep into their room at night to make sure their blankets are still on top of them and the little one is not about to fall out of her bed, they both look like angels and any bad earlier behaviour from them just becomes a distant memory.