When do they switch to grown up toothpaste?
When do they stop believing in Father Christmas and the tooth fairy?
When are they old enough to bath themselves?
When do they start going to bed later?
When do they stop wanting to cuddle you?
When do you start being an embarrassment?
When do you start giving them pocket money?
When do you let them walk to school by themselves?
When can you leave them alone in the house?
When do you get them a mobile phone?
When do you tell them about the birds & bees?
When do they stop being yours?
4 comments:
Brilliant. You're so right. Have just been wrestling with the toothpaste issue and deduced that since all kids ones go up to aged six that must be the moment. Re the embarrassment factor: that starts with girls around 3. Or it does if they have me as a mother!
I don't know! Mine don't do any of those things yet. The only thing I can tell you is that a friend of mine was buying her son a mobile for Christmas - he was 11, and he was the last person in his class to get one. That's scary.
AMM, as I yet again bought the three different age brackets of toothpaste to cover my three, it suddenly occurred to me that I was being 'had'. I mean toothpaste is toothpaste isn't it, to a greater or lesser degree? Don't we just use less if they are little? I'm sure we didn't have special toothpaste for babies? Oh and I deeply embarrass my 7.5 yr old in the playground when I kiss her goodbye..
NVG, some yr 6's at our school have 'em.. I'm putting off as long as poss I think..
BM x
All those things! I think the answer to most of them is, when they pester you so much that you lose the will to argue over it! Apart from the toothpaste, and that is when they stop swallowing the stuff!
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