This evening we were watching a news program on aging parents. It contained an interview with adult children of elderly parents and the situations they find themselves handling for their parents.
Lucas and Eli conducted their usual running conversations of who, what, why and as the story progressed they became quite intense as to why the "old" dad and mom needed to be taken care of. They just couldn't get their brain around that.
We finally gave them the example of my mom who is in an assisted living apartment and needs help from all of the family sometimes. Man....did the light bulbs switch on.
Eli's concern, "are you old?" My response, "not that old yet." (probably getting there faster than I'd like).
Lucas' take on this ...... "Mom, when you old I take care of you, you take care of me now." Eli nodded his head, with great wisdom, agreeing that this would be the best course to take for Mike and my twilight years.
Now you may wonder how this differs from conversations we've had with the girls on this subject. Their take....Alison says she knows a really good nursing home....Rachel says, ummm nope and Sydney digs a really good hole. The differences in kids :)
Oh, how wonderful your boys are.
ReplyDeleteI'm enjoying your blog. Found it on the sidebar of "Born in Our Hearts" lilybelle (Wendy's) blog.
We keep telling our bio boys that they have to either earn enough to pay for our nursing home (so get a good job!) or else change our diapers themselves. LOL