My daughter, Kelsey, has been clumsy since the day she learned to walk. She was always falling and tripping over air!! One day she had fallen down the steep staircase in the 1900 Victorian Gingerbread home I owned in Iowa. The poor kid just could not stay on her feet and was always getting hurt.
One
morning when she was about four years old we were watching TV waiting for the
Head Start school bus to pick her up. A
commercial came on the TV and I started to walk away. Kelsey yelled, “Mommy, Mommy it’s my
show.” I walked back into the living
room to see what she was talking about.
When she saw me she pointed to the TV and said, “I need one of them so I
don’t fall down!” I started laughing
hysterically because it was a commercial for the Scooter Store.
I
spent the next 15 minutes trying to explain to a four year old that those were
for people who had a hard time walking because of their health etc. She just wasn’t getting why she couldn’t get
one because she had a hard time walking just like the people on the
commercial. Finally I just said,
“Kelsey, did you notice that all the people on the commercial were older like
Great Grandma? That’s why you can’t have
one you’re just too young.”
Surprisingly, it worked and she moved onto another topic of conversation
until her bus arrived.
Ever
since that day when a scooter commercial comes on I yell so she can hear me,
“Kelsey your show is on!” Brooklynn and
I then laugh hysterically while Kelsey rolls her eyes at us!
©2014 Lysa Wilds
©2014 Lysa Wilds
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