What Imperfections Do You Love About Your Kid(s)?

I "love" the fact that he thinks it's funny to stand next to me and yell "put the phone down mommy!" as soon as I answer it. I'm rarely on the phone at home, but he hates it when I am. If I don't hang up or walk away from him, he'll do his "monkey screech" just to remind me that he's annoyed before finding something else to do!

Hi Denise-

I love so many imperfections of all of my kids...but I best love O. of my twin daughters 'imperfections'...

Her 'broken' heart has made my family 'whole'...Her challenged lungs have helped us to breathe...Her words are few...but speak VOLUMES...

Her 'imperfections' have made all in our family kinder, tolerant, patient...and strive to be 'better' humans...

I will take 'imperfection' ANY day...

michele/cat

That my son has autism. Maybe that is not worded correctly. What I mean is that my son's autism has taught me and everyone us around us a lot. From him and his learning disability, I've learned a lot of lessons like:

Never let someone tell you what you can and cannot do;
The imporantance of observing without judgment;
Compassion and acceptance.

As for my daughter, well I love the fact that she really does believe that she will be the next American Idol someday but she can't carry a tune! At least not yet, but that doesn't stop her from practicing her performances around our house 24/7, much to our delight and chagrin.

my oldest has a very vivid imaganation. it is his plus but sometimes I think god get with reality. but he wants to be a fiction writer and this is a blessing to a fiction writer they think of what we dont. look at the guy who wrote cary and cujo he is sick but doent practice it in real life just in the books :) but if he did practice it in real life lord help us all.

now my youngest is imperfect cause he is hard of hearing but he will talk your leg off babble babble babble. non stop and he hollars constantly. i always know where he is you cant miss the hollaring. but in public its like shhh. :)

now my oldest sons most annoying habit is pidling. I have tried and tried to break this but he piddles. he is never going to change so i just tell him we have to be somewhere 30 minutes before we do so he can still piddle and get there on time. and he is very sensative which his wife will love but its annoying sometimes.

and my youngest loves to wrestle I love this but when you dont feel like wrestling he doesnt understand and does it any way. that is how I know I am loved :) and missed :)

For me its more of a love/ hate relationship I have with my three-year-old daughter's imperfections. Its her pistil of a personality, a little fire within her. At times she keeps me laughing and other times she embarrasses the hell out of me. When she announces, "I want to bite cousin _____!" And my prim and proper BIL and SIL and their non personality little lump of a toddler gasp in horror at her burst of meanness I don't so much love it. But I know she is going to be a leader, and a fabulous personality. Now its my job as mom to help curb her will when its bent on meanness, and direct her to use that little fire in her for good.

My 7 year old's teeth!! You know that goofy stage where grown up teeth come in, but they're still too big for the child? LOL!! She loooves showing them off, too funny ;) She's got a great sense of humor.

My 5 year old's MOUTH. Super chatterbox. She talks nonstop, questioning everything and anything, from the second she gets home up until the minute she goes to bed. She's exhausting. AND she sounds like Minnie Mouse, no joke.

My 1 year old... the child is a terror, a complete menace, BUT... he keeps me on my toes. It's kind of awesome watching his brain work trying to figure things out (even though he's destroying them). You can actually SEE the evil little wheels turning in his head... and I mean that with all the love in my heart ;)

The 7 year old- I love the way she loves, she has told a stranger at church that she loves them when putting her to sleep she used to say "put your face in my face" and i would have to smell her breath in order for her to fall asleep LOL. It drives me bonkers that she has this lying thing going on, she recently got a red note sent home for being chatty cathy and hide it, well over the weekend we get a letter in the mail from the teacher saying I sent a note home by your daughter twice that was not returned.

The 11 year old- I love the way she listens, when we bring something to her attention that she needs to do better she will try to accomplish it. She has this laugh she will do that makes me cringe it's not her genuine laugh but it is this cartoon laugh that is so loud and shriekish (not sure if that is a word)

The oldest- UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM! Whew let's see. I love her style and her artisticness (that she does not know she has) I think she is sweet and a superstar, she can dress her but off with little effort, I remember having to buy clothes from garage sales and she would hook it up and look like I spent money. I cannot stand her attitude and her whaaat eva! disposition on things oh and her false sense of entitlement is a major (my fault).

Very cute question

My oldest is always trying to be too mature, ever since she was 3(shes 8 now) She will blend into the group that she is in, if its a more adult group and will talk and act like an adult. Kind of drives me crazy, but its so unique to her.

My youngest is a little card, to the point of being completely distracted and disobeying she will pick up on what is funny and run with it, to get laughs. I know she will be getting into trouble in school.

but darn it, its hilarious and everyone cant help but laugh at her antics.

I love my 4 year olds sense that she can be anything ...and I mean anything,,,at O. time it was God now she wants to be a paleontologist, astronaut that dresses like spiderman and sings like michael jackson....love that about her....the O. thing that drives M. nuts is her over sensitive nature...she s been like that from day O., shes really smart and overthinks way too much, sometimes I J. want her to play in the mud and spin in circles with other kids....she seems to like to chat with adults more.

My little girl has a cafe au lait spot. I love it!

Damn it was so hard to find O. because they are so "perfect"...just kidding.
I love/annoy that every time I try to exercise my 2 year old thinks is playing time. I am not strong enough to do many push ups but is impossible with a baby on top your back and telling me: "Come on horsy" problem is that she looks and sound so funny.
Oh and my teen, I love when she ask us stuff from school that we don't remember and her answer is: "But you went to school, don't they teach that on your times". lol.
I agree with you, thanks God for Wikipedia!

Can I love and hate the same thing? My son loves to ask questions! He never stops and sometimes it can be quite irritating. But, I also love that he is so inquisitive!

There are imperfections that I do NOT love about my kids. Actually, there are two that irritate me, and I am out ideas how to change that.
1. is the fact that they are followers. Where did they get that from?They let other kids tell them what to do and they will do it (O. more so than the other).
2. They fight with each other over anything but are angels towards other kids.
But the imperfections that I love about them?
ALright I'll tackle this O. too.
O. of mine, who does have a hearing loss, will be asked a question, and if she's doing something, occupied, or her brain has gone for a walk that moment she will not give a sign or a sigh or a gesture to let me know she heard me, let alone answer me. Then a few hours can pass (or as little as a few minutes) and she will answer my question. Most of the time I don't even remember what I had asked her, but she did hear me, she just chose to ignore me until she decided to answer me. I love that.
2.My other O.. Oh she's a handful. Aside from her stubborness she's perfect. No, I really mean it. She is. Smart, funny, beautiful, and an over-achiever. Stubborn as a mule, but otherwise perfect.

Hi, Denise:
Did you realize you are encouraging a behavior that will become troublesome when he is a teenager and wants to be "normal."
Laughter at this behavior can be interpreted as being made fun of as the child gets older. Just a thought.
D.