A little story of my awakening...

Kids raise you as much as you raise them

I hate dentists!

Nothing against them, they are generally nice people. But I hate when they try to be nice and ask about your day. Without realizing that your mouth is occupied by their giant hands and half a dozen tools. There is only so much you can express by moving your head.

Anyway, it was just another dentist appointment. After a lot of digging and shoving in my mouth, they finally set me free. After taking a lot of drug shots, half of my mouth was still numb. I was just casually driving back.

Then, I realized I did not turn off the sprinklers I started before leaving 🤦‍♂️

Finally, my $1000 phone can be useful, "Hey, Siri, please call my wife". I got a most useless response," Sorry, I didn't catch it". After 3 tries Siri finally gave up, "Sorry, I didn't catch that, you can try spelling".

Siri turned out totally useless in this situation.

Even after monitoring all my activities, Siri could not realize the fact my voice might be muffled after the dentist's appointment. Well, I decided to take her suggestion and picked the phone to call my wife. Yeah, for some reason saving water sounded more important than my life. At least I did not try texting her while driving 😉

But maybe I should have texted her.

I kept saying "shut off the water", she kept hearing "what is the matter". Oh boy, it is frustrating! I was already punching in the air and banging my head on the steering wheel. The driver in the next car was smiling, thinking I am really enjoying the music.

Grrr...😡 why she is not able to understand such a simple thing!

Then it just hit me. This is exactly how my 3-year-old daughter feels.

When she does not have enough words to explain herself. When we show off our reasoning skills and try to talk her out of all the fun things she wants to do. Then she gets furious and screams. Instead of trying to understand her, we try to tell her why screaming is bad and how she should behave. Just felt her pain, I was sad. Wanted to hug my little girl, wanted to say sorry!

I called my wife again, "Hey, I want to talk to Myra". My wife, "Where you want to walk to 🤔 ?"

GRRRRRRRRRRRR 😡 😡 😡