Have you
ever held a conversation with your child, only for them to tell you later that
they forgot what you said? Well, it still happens when they’re young adults.
I told my
gatekeepers (my sons) that I would not be home right after work because I had a
hair appointment. Somehow they must have forgotten that. Two hours past the end
of my workday, I sat blissfully underneath the hair dryer reading a book. My
cell phone buzzed.
The text
message read, “Ma, where are u?”
I quickly responded
so I could get back to reading my book. Five seconds after I hit send,
my phone rang. It was my other son calling. I tilted my head outside of the
hair dryer (I didn’t want to stop the dryer) and pressed the phone against my
ear.
“Ma, where
are you?”
“I’m at the
hair salon. Are you and your brother in the same house?”
“Oh, I was
about to put out an Amber Alert.”
“I may be a
little too old for an Amber Alert, but thanks for wanting to send out an
emergency response team. Please text your brother. Better yet, go into the
other room and tell your brother I’m fine.”
My son told
me that he’d forgotten that I had a hair appointment. He realized that I should
have been home by a certain time. In that moment, a role reversal occurred.
Both my sons experienced what a parent goes through when their child is not
where he should be.
What is an
example of a time you experienced a role reversal with your child?
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