I need more patience….or tolerance...
Every day if the timing is just so, I get to stop for a
school bus on a regular route. This
doesn’t bother me EXCEPT…..the one stop is a couple of girls and it looks like
this:
Mom and Dad drive both their vehicles up the SHORT driveway and sit
there with the girls in the vehicles, waiting for the bus to arrive. They don’t get out until the bus is actually
at their drive way stopped. Then each
girl gets out as the parents get out of their vehicles, and respectively they
go through this ritual of hugging each parent before they slowly walk across
the road to get on the bus, we wait for them to be seated as the bus will then
move on. The cars line up behind
watching and waiting for this ritual on a daily basis.
A couple of things that burn my hide are, if the parents
KNOW the bus is coming, why don’t they start their ritual sooner so we all don’t
have to painfully watch this while waiting.
Or, do it BEFORE they get in the vehicles at the house…..one gal is in 6th
grade, soon to be 7th….okay….old enough to walk up the drive, wait for the bus
and just get on it when it arrives!
Seriously. Don’t the parents see us all watching and waiting to continue
on our daily commutes? No respect for
that – I think they love the audience….”see how much we love our children!” Yikes.
Drives me nuts as you can tell.
I’m not opposed to “I Love You” rituals at all, but at the
expense of others who are waiting on you every day I find this one annoying and
over the top. TIME magazine just featured a model breast feeding her 3 yr old who stands on a chair. Yikes....disturbing photo of a ritual gone too long.
We all have rituals we do
with our children, they are healthy for children to have. There comes a time we release some of those
as our children outgrow them. It is the
journey of letting go of the apron strings…..it is hard, but we do it. We move from blankies and bottles to cups and
good night tucks. I'm talking to myself here too as Sophia still crawls into bed with me too often and it is a hard habit to break. We all have habits.....a reminder to myself to review more of them.
I think God is working to teach me a lesson in patience that
I clearly am rebelling against….because for many years now I’ve witnessed this
same bus loading ritual over and over and it burns me every time. I’m human and so are these parents who are driving me nuts.