One of the questions they told me when I still had no children and I thought more or less as a good ignorant of the issue of motherhood, was that with children you are always late for appointments.
Then, with the passage of time and two young daughters, I realize that those who told me were already late before having children. So why put the excuse of the kids?
"You'll see, when you have children, you'll understand ..." Well no, really. It is normal that at first the rhythms change, and as first-time people who have not had to return home because they have left the bag with diapers, or calculated the time to take the train with the same standard as when he went alone (and lost it, of course).
But with a little filming you learn to run at a new pace, and obviously where two were preparing before, now we are four, so if we don't want to be late, we will have to start preparing to leave earlier ...
There was a time when, to go to work, I set the alarm more or less soon depending on whether I had parked the car far or near. He arrived just in time, without unforeseen events. Those times obviously ended, and now I dare to say that, not only to work but to any appointment, if there is "luck" we arrive early.
The explanation is simple, I go with much more time "to spare" because the first attempts to get to dates with children already showed me how fragile the concept of going with the time just when it does not depend on the same, a single person.
I would say more, and it seems to me that "blaming" the children of our tardiness seems to me not very elegant, because if we stop to think, really, even when the reason for the delay is really an unexpected incident with the children, What fault do they have? Not having known how to control the poop from getting out of the diaper? Not having had enough appetite to eat breakfast quickly and not throwing milk over?
It is true that it can happen to all of us some unforeseen Just at the moment when you are leaving home, myself, some accumulation of circumstances with my daughters has caused us to arrive at school late on occasion, in the afternoon. But, and that is another story, is that school schedules leave the right time between you arrive home at noon and you have to leave again.
Therefore, we do not have to listen with the fly behind the ear whenever they tell us that "sorry for the delay, but is that the kids ...". But there comes a time when, for the “repeat offenders”, the being late because of the children no longer sneaks... We will have to find another excuse! But hey, we already know each other ...
