{"id":2022,"date":"2015-04-02T14:39:19","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T19:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/?p=2022"},"modified":"2015-06-12T15:57:46","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T20:57:46","slug":"im-a-role-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/im-a-role-model\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m a role model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot lately about what it means to be a grandparent. I&#8217;m a\u00a0<strong>very hands-on grandparent<\/strong>, considering that I provide childcare for my grandson for 12+ hours every day, 7 days a week. He and his Mom live with us, and with her crazy work schedule I get to hang-out with Hectic Grandson more than most grandparents get to do with their grand kiddos.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s great, and I love it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But with great opportunity comes great responsibility. Everyone will tell you that their kids and grandkids are the smartest ones out there. We don&#8217;t question that we have bright progeny. How could we, they&#8217;re our direct descendants and they have amazing genetics, right?<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2025\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_4568.jpg?resize=225%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_4568.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_4568.jpg?resize=113%2C150&amp;ssl=1 113w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_4568.jpg?w=576&amp;ssl=1 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>Hectic Grandson is no different. He&#8217;s a bright little guy who is learning things way too fast. He is an expert at mimicry, and is making a living in the humorist department mimicking (and sometimes mocking) what we all do. He&#8217;s the light of our lives, and definitely the star of the Hectic Household show.<\/p>\n<p>His cute antics are obviously echoes of the things he sees and hears around him. But so are his tantrums. Let&#8217;s face it, life isn&#8217;t always chocolate and roses. There are times when we bicker and even get into full-blown arguments. He&#8217;s a spectator to the good and the bad, and he&#8217;s learning all the different forms of social interaction. When I look into his eyes I can see the wheels turning and can tell he&#8217;s processing far more than he lets on.<\/p>\n<p>That brings up the issue of how important my role is. I&#8217;m his main role model. For close to ten of the twelve hours we&#8217;re together, I&#8217;m the only person he interacts with. I&#8217;m the face that he sees when he looks up from whatever endeavor he&#8217;s gotten started on. I&#8217;m the voice that encourages him, the voice that warns him when he&#8217;s in danger, and the voice of reason when he&#8217;s about to do something naughty. My facial expressions, body language, and voice are on constant display to him. There&#8217;s no time off&#8230;and no do-overs. If he bites me on the ear and I cry out in pain&#8230;he hears that. If I tap his hand as he&#8217;s throwing his food not the floor and tell him &#8220;no&#8221;&#8230;he hears and feels that. If I clap my hands in encouragement for one of his accomplishments it goes right into his brain.<\/p>\n<p><strong>He&#8217;s learning by example, both good and bad.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Because I&#8217;m an introspective sort, and spent far too many undergraduate years as a psychology student, I&#8217;ve been considering the impact that my actions, body language, and voice have on him. To that end, I&#8217;ve been working hard to keep the messages positive. On those days when he&#8217;s out of sorts and cries at everything, I\u00a0strive\u00a0to keep a smile on my face and joy in my voice. I&#8217;ve discovered\u00a0that it&#8217;s hard to be cross when you&#8217;ve got a smile on your face, even if the smile is a bit forced. Oddly, I&#8217;ve found that it&#8217;s easier and easier to have a positive outlook and countenance the more I&#8217;ve focused on wearing that smile. Frankly, I&#8217;m not sure which comes first, the countenance or the attitude, but it does seem to be a positive feedback loop. For the nerd in me, that&#8217;s fascinating. For the little observer who follows me everywhere, I might look like an idiot, but I look like a positive idiot. That&#8217;s what matters.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2026\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/guardian-angel-675595_1280.jpg?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/guardian-angel-675595_1280.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/guardian-angel-675595_1280.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/guardian-angel-675595_1280.jpg?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/guardian-angel-675595_1280.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I&#8217;ve also spent a lot of time thinking about the role models that I had growing up. I had intended for this post to be about both my maternal Grandmother and my Dad, but now that I&#8217;ve gotten this far, I&#8217;ve decided that you&#8217;re going to be hearing about the two of them separately, at a later time. The important thing is that I&#8217;ve realized that the lilt of their voices, the stupid jokes and stories that they told\u00a0<em>over and over<\/em>, and the glint in their eyes are the things that I remember most. They were both quick to praise, sometimes critical (in the most positive way), and had the best chuckle and grins of anybody on the planet. They&#8217;re both moved on to Heaven, and I regularly envision them sitting on a bench watching me interact with Hectic Grandson. I hope that they approve of how I&#8217;m doing. I know they sometimes shake their heads and wonder what I&#8217;m up to, but regularly I come to my senses. Occasionally I could swear that I&#8217;ve been tapped on\u00a0the shoulders by angel&#8217;s wings reminding me of my responsibility and nudging me to get back on track. I take those reminders seriously!<\/p>\n<p>I take comfort in the fact that I&#8217;ve got a team of advisors who were once here on Earth to provide examples and are now watching over me on a daily basis. I&#8217;ve started to tell more stories to Hectic Grandson, and lots of those stories are about my Dad and Grandmother. I&#8217;m doing what I can to take my responsibility as a caregiver and role model seriously&#8230;but I&#8217;m mixing in a dose of moxy, mischievousness, and humor. I&#8217;ve borrowed those traits directly from my Heavenly role models.<\/p>\n<p>As I look at Hectic Grandson&#8217;s face as he lays sleeping peacefully next to me as I write this, I think I&#8217;m doing an OK job. I&#8217;m gonna keep working to make it an\u00a0<em>excellent job<\/em>, because honestly he deserves it!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hopefully Dad and Nonnie approve!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Dad Network\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thedadnetwork.co.uk\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedadnetwork.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/image-e1423257811431.png?w=900\" alt=\"The Dad Network\" \/><\/a> <a title=\"Binky Linky\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twinmummyanddaddy.com\/p\/binky-linky.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i128.photobucket.com\/albums\/p184\/emily_higgins1\/BinkyLinkyBadge_zps6c7e0adf.jpg?w=900\" alt=\"Binky Linky\" \/><\/a> <a title=\"Post Comment Love\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vevivos.com\/post-comment-love\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\" http:\/\/i1322.photobucket.com\/albums\/u568\/ToriWel\/4e4a1bf6-07cb-494b-b06e-f959b1fe1311_zps654d027a.jpg\" alt=\"Post Comment Love\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot lately about what it means to be a grandparent. 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