Friday, 09 July 2010
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Mom Magic? Intuition? Psychic Moments?
There are times when I swear I'm psychic. We were headed to the library today. Son requested to bring Doggy along. (Doggy is a stuffed dog. We haven't gotten too creative with names yet.) I said sure. It's been raining off and on all morning, so there's a big puddle near the car. I walk him around the puddle, holding his hand as we go, telling him that I don't want him to walk through the puddle because it's really muddy. I have to maneuver him around the puddle when I open the car door but I manage. Seconds before I get him in the car, just an instance before it happens, I see it in my mind.
Doggy is in the puddle.
And then Doggy was in the puddle.
Why can't I have psychic visions showing me winning lottery numbers?
Things like this happen to me fairly often, though. And it's been since I've had a kid. It's like I've developed another sense. I know what he's doing when I'm in a different room. I can tell by the noises I hear coming from his bedroom what he's doing. And I'm usually right. Lover has tested me more than once and I haven't been wrong yet. I even know what toy.
I'm also good at locating things that aren't mine. Especially Lover's stuff. I just know where everything is. Even stuff he drops. I tell him I'm magic.
It's probably more I put everything where I want it, therefore I know where it all is. And I play with all of those toys all of the time. Of course I know what they sound like. I'm incredibly familiar with my surroundings.
But Doggy in the puddle? I guess my two year old's just a predictable little brat. I saw that one a mile away. Doggy is now chillin' on the porch, drying in the sun. After he's dry and cleaned up, he's an indoor doggy once again.
Anyone else get those little "psychic moments" as a mom? Just curious.
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Instinct. Every mother has an instinct surrounding her child and the things going on with her child. The problem is trying to LISTEN to that instinct. I consider myself pretty intune with what my instinct is telling me about my child but I STILL second guess myself constantly...and I know I don't need to, but I can't help it. If mothers listened to their instinct, there probably wouldn't be the need for 20 million parenting books...lol. :)
I have this, I'm not a mother, but maybe this instinct just came early for me ;)
I think that most parents have a "mom intuition".
Mommy Radar. I always knew where my son was, and what he was doing. My mommy "alarm" would go off whenever he became too quiet- then I would find him up to something, like the time he thought it would fun to smash his dad's rock collection with a hammer.
I think most mothers have that, and it is stronger when you listen to it. It warns of impending danger, or just simply tells you how things are. I have SO many instances it has come in handy. Once I was so tired and I dozed off while my son was playing. I dreamt my son was falling off of a piece of furniture. I awoke and looked around for him. He'd climbed onto that piece of furniture and just as I looked over, he slipped...I was able to catch him mid-fall.
A friend of mine was outside talking to a neighbor and had the clear impression her daughter was playing with the stove. She ran in and her 2 yr old had pushed a chair over to climb on; she was was sitting on the burners, playing with the knobs (she'd already turned one burner on). Her mother saved her from a potentially fatal disaster. She didn't even get burned.
I don't always listen, and sometimes things happen that I knew would happen...I knew my foreign exchange studen was going to hurt herself moments before she broke her toe while playing tag with my children. I felt it would happen, and could have told them to find a new game, but I enjoyed the shreaks and giggles, so I ignored the impression. I regret that now.
I firmly believe most women, esp. mothers, are given a special gift that helps them to raise their children well and safely.
@smile4iluvya@xanga - What a great way to put it! I have been chalking it up to karma and we've been saying THANKS everytime we escape a near disaster. :) I guess that can't hurt, either.
@smile4iluvya@xanga I think I know what you mean as well. I have a little 3 year old nephew, and growing up I always wondered how my mom knew to do the things she did, but she just......did. And I have those same moments with my nephew where I'm like, "I don't know how I know this I just do."
Oh yeah. Being alert and observant of your surroundings becomes just another natural instinct of motherhood. We subconsciously take into account our surroundings so we anticipate when something is going to happen. This happens to me all the time. I am especially good at knowing exactly what my son is doing when he's down the hall out of sight, and I'm also good knowing where things are, but that's probably because of your theory that we pick up after everyone so we see everything. Anyway, I used to laugh when my mom would say she had eyes in the back of her head, but now I find myself saying it as well. =]