My most memorable moment as a mother was when my youngest son Zachary was about 15 - 18 months old. He was walking by the time he was 10 months and was always getting into things. The story that I am about to tell you is ABSOLUTELY TRUE!
One day my husband and I found him at the Ozarka water fountain pulling on the spouts and there was water all over the place. He was having a wonderful time. My husband screamed “NO”, which immediately got Zachary’s attention. My husband picked him up and kept saying, “NO, NO, NO! NO WATER”! This really scared my little son and he started crying and repeated over and over, “No water, no water, no water.” He was repeating it so much that I thought we might have to get him therapy to get over it.
I had my husband sit Zack on the couch between us so that we could start calming him down, but he kept repeating over and over “NO WATER.” We told him calmly, “That’s correct. No water! Don’t play in the water.” Then he saw an ink pen on the coffee table in front of us and said, “No write, no write!” We encouraged him and said, “That RIGHT! You don’t play in the water and you don’t write on the walls! You are getting it, Zachary!” We had corrected him many times before about writing on the walls. He started saying very franticly, “No water, no write, no water, no write!” “Yes,” we said, “no water and no write. Calm down….you don’t play in the water and you don’t write on the walls.” He so sadly looked up at my husband and put his little hand on top of his head and while rubbing his head, he stated, “No water, no write”, but in a more calmly fashion. He then looked up at his dad, while still rubbing his dad’s head and said, “No water, no write, no hair!” NO HAIR! I fell of the couch, laughing so hard I could hardly get my breath! My son’s eyes brightened with my laughter! I picked him up and gave him a big hug and a kiss and said, “You’ve got it, Zack! NO WATER, NO WRITE,” and pointing to dad, “NO HAIR!!!” Poor dad! Now he needed therapy!!
Brenda Stevens
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