Banter – Fri 12th Aug 2016
By Jeannette | August 12, 2016
Banter, something I wish there was more of in this house. Remember the Oxo ads with the light-hearted exchanges around the dinner table – and they’re all eating the same meal btw – I’d watch those and think “yes, I’ll have a family one day and we’ll do that”.
The truth is very different.
T loves a bit of banter, on his terms. An example today was that he was reminding me that the football season was starting soon and wasn’t I going to enjoy it? I replied along the lines of “oh course and just think, if I do have my op (appeal being heard next week) I can watch sky sports news all day and tell you about it when you get home from school”. Very, very tongue in cheek, which T understood. D didn’t. In fact, the banter horrified her (she’s not a SSN gal).
And then a bit later, we were debating potential pet names, which led to a cartoon characters reminisce and some fun as scooby and scrappy doo and all sorts were banded around, which sent D away in tears because she felt we were “too noisy” and she “felt left out”.
It’s so difficult to just have a little giggle sometimes, a little bit of banter.
Today’s back-fired. Some 1:1 time with D with some (very) general banter wouldn’t. Life isn’t what you imagine sometimes is it?
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