Cranky Momma

[liralen]

Last night, after I'd discovered the break I was worried and feeling very grumpy and Jet was merrily nattering on about something, and I grumped, "Momma is cranky."

"You are NOT cranky, Momma."

"I am. I feel really grumpy and cranky right now, Jet."

"Ah," said Jet in that voice of enlightenment. "You feel grumpy, you're not acting grumpy."

"It's true. I'm not yelling at you or anything." I say, feeling not much better, but at least good that I'm not doing what I well know I shouldn't.

"Yeah. I don't like it when you yell at me." Said the boy contemplatively.

"Yeah. I don't like it, either." And we nodded together.

"So you're not being cranky, you just feel cranky."

"Yeah. I guess you're right." And for no real reason I felt a lot better.

Comments

[bwb-archive.livejournal.com]

Wow, Jet just nicely illustrated the notion that you are not what you think, but what you do.

He's quite a little bodhi boy sometimes :)

[archangelbeth]

That's a wonderful term for it.

Awwww. O:>


(Just trash the screened anon version. It logged me out between one heartbeat and the next. Argh.)

[liralen.livejournal.com]

I have! Yay!

*giggles* at the Awwww...

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Oooo...

He has! He is, I think, but sometimes I wonder if it's just me being Mom. *grin*

[grey-lady.livejournal.com]

Thank you for sharing this - it brought a broad smile to my face.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

*beam* You're welcome!

[rephetibel.livejournal.com]

Cranky as a feeling is okay. Cranky as an action is not okay.

Smart kid!

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Precisely! It's funny, sometimes, to have things like that come back... as in we tell him it's okay to feel mad so long as he doesn't destroy or hurt people because of it. Mad's sometimes useful to do something hard that's constructive.

It's cool to have it come back in a completely different form like this and know he really understands, now, the underlying difference.