Last week I was a bad mommy. I had a deposition early in the morning and late the night before I had to reset the home router. In my home router, I had settings that blocked YouTube from my 7 year old’s computer. The older kids could still get on but for him it was a no go. I told my youngest child that YouTube was just broken on his computer.
Yes I will readily lie to my children if it is in their best interest and makes life simple. No I won’t lie about the big stuff but the small stuff most definitely. The “New Man” in my life would tell me I was wrong and you have to be honest with kids about everything, but I disagree. Kids are kids and they don’t use logic or reasoning the same way adults do so there are times that it is easier and better to lie then try to get them to understand the logic or reasoning behind an action. The lie is not the bad mommy part read on for that.
I was tired from sorting out a problem with the router so just reset it and shut it off. The next morning I turned it back on but had to leave so I didn’t add the block to YouTube back. I figured it had been blocked for so long that my son wasn’t even trying to go to the YouTube site anymore. Boy was I wrong.
Not only did my son go on YouTube, I think he spent the entire time I was gone on YouTube. I swear I closed the front door and he popped out of bed and straight onto YouTube like he knew it was available. The deposition was long and tiring and when I got home, I sorted the kids dinner and took a nap.
I woke up to hearing someone in the kitchen messing with the pots and pans. It was late and I knew no one should be in the kitchen messing about especially with the pots and pans. I got up to investigate to find my 7 year old calmly searching for a pot. I asked why he was doing this and he replied, “Aliens take your brain at night and run test on it and then put it back.” Huh? was my response. See I had forgotten all about YouTube by this point and I thought his brothers were messing with him.
Turns out it wasn’t his brothers, who by the way had just got done telling him a few days before that he was adopted, so loving they are with each other {sigh}. My son had been on YouTube all day. He started rambling on about two faced babies, a man with bark for skin, Gods from Thailand with many arms and aliens. See the search for the pot was to find one big enough to fit his head and keep the aliens from taking his brain while he was sleeping.
Try not to laugh if your child ever tells you something similar because it doesn’t go over well with them. He was dead serious. I wasn’t laughing to make fun of him, I thought it was cute and I couldn’t help but picture the guys with the tin foil on their heads to keep the government and aliens at bay. Anyway, laughing not the best response.
We had a discussion about aliens and I told him that they aren’t real just in cartoons and the movies. He is 7 for goodness sakes no sense opening that can of worms just yet. However, his father already had knowingly or unknowingly. My son told me aliens were real because the mars rover found life on Mars, so his father told him, and he looked it up on YouTube. Nothing like being outted by a 7 year old.
We had an interesting discussion and I swear the child is genius based on the all the information he sucked up from YouTube in one day and remembered, I think all of it. I was able to assure him that even though some people believe there are aliens they don’t come and take your brain while you are sleeping so he didn’t need the pot on his head. He seemed satisfied with our discussion so he went to bed sans the pot.
That was last week. Since then I have heard about aliens a lot. They are everywhere and he assures me they are here maybe they don’t take his brain but they are definitely here. Now I have to figure out a way to have legitimate discussion about aliens enough so to sate his curiosity but not scare the heck out of him. This is not an easy task by any means. I am also trying to keep his brothers from “helping”. See they didn’t have a problem telling him he was adopted and I can just imagine now they will add, “and your real parents are aliens”. Brotherly love what can I say.
Any ideas or suggestions are welcome because right now I am at a loss. I have searched the internet far and wide and checked out some books in the library but there isn’t much for having a legitimate discussion about aliens with a 7 year old. You would think there would be something, I mean my kid is definitely not the first kid to think aliens are real.
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