What’s it like?

[Herecomesthesundoodoodoo]

Having children who are easy and well behaved, never any trouble? It must be so nice going to parents’ evenings, school pick ups, holiday club collection, knowing the children have been no trouble. Taking them to social events knowing they’ll be angels.

My kids are pretty well behaved. For DD1 it’s mostly due to her anxiety. She has mental health issues and has multiple minor medical health issues and is under about 5 different health hospital departments. If you met us you wouldn’t know unless I told you. Everyone in life has different difficulties.

Are there children who are always brilliant in all these situations?

My DD is brilliantly behaved in restaurants, gets great reports from school and holiday club, behaves well at home and behaves well on play dates. However she struggles with socialising in group situations and can be a bit of a PITA, lacks empathy and can be antisocial and just not make an effort at all, even with basics like saying hello to a friend we pass in the street.

I don’t think there are many children who behave well in all situations. In fact the one child I can think of who seemed to behave brilliantly in all situations and excel at everything is now struggling with MH issues as a teenager.

My son is well behaved in all these situations, but he is no angel, we still get times at home where he is full of sass and a PITA!
No one is perfect.