The Smoking Jacket Chronicles

Kids: Payback for your mistakes as a child

Whenever I hear about the things that my young nieces have done, it reminds me of the familiar phrase that I once heard as a child, " What on earth were you thinking?" That phrase was always uttered by my mom whenever we had done things that completely made no sense.
Even though I end up having to be the bad guy when I talk to them, inside I am cracking up laughing because my sister is getting back all of the grief that she put our mom through.
Mom used to always say, "Wait until you have kids.......! "
I only hope that when I am married with kids that my payback doesn't come back as hard.