Humor – Kids get in trouble trying to do the right thing

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I know we all have stories of something we did as a child that we got in trouble for even though we were trying to do the right thing. Here are a couple of true stories from my childhood and my husband’s. My Story: I remember it well, how could I forget? For something fun and entertaining, my mom sometimes bought pomegranates for us to enjoy. She always told me to eat them over the sink, as they will stain just about anything. I had that etched in my brain. She was dead serious, and I wasn’t about to cross her. Mom might have been short and sweet as pie, but all it took was one look from her to know I had “gone too far” {her words}. So this one time, at band camp… Errr wrong story. So this one time, when I was about 14 years old, I spied a pomegranate in the kitchen. Sweet! Being the perfect child I was *cough* I carried it over to the sink and the mayhem began. I peeled the skin off a portion of it, and pulled the pomegranate in half. My stomach dropped as I saw a stream of juice heading for the thin white cotton curtains above the sink. Imagine curtains made of super thin bed sheets – that is what the material was. Cute little ruffly white curtains. I was panic stricken of course and frantically put a little water on the juice {which HAD in fact landed on the curtain}, and grabbed the soap. I was desperately scrubbing the curtain with both hands in a back and forth motion, when all of a sudden…RIP! The curtain ripped – right there in my hands. But, but I was trying to do the right thing! When my mom saw this she was beyond mad. She was completely livid. I explained to her what had happened, but it didn’t matter. I got in big trouble. My husband’s story: When my husband was a little boy, around 7 or 8 years old, he was playing football by himself in his backyard. Their house had a detached garage, and he was playing in the area between the house and garage.   He was kicking the ball, having a grand old time, when his dad came out and told him not to kick the football because it might go through a window. No problem. My husband (little boy) decided to just pretend kick. He was pretending that the football was on the spike thingy {you know the thing that they use in football games? LOL I don’t know what it is called} and he was ‘air’ kicking the pretend ball. He was doing this for awhile, when all of a sudden his shoe came off and went flying into the garage window, shattering it into a million pieces. I’m sure the look on his face was priceless, but somehow his dad didn’t appreciate any of this. Poor guy – he, too, was just trying to do what he was told and got in big trouble! I have to giggle every time I hear him tell this story. The visual just cracks me up. I always try to keep these stories in mind when I am mad at the kids for something. If they were really trying to do the right thing, and it just turned out bad, I do my best to be understanding. Has anything like this happened to you or someone you know?

Stories like those above would also be great to add to your journal for your children!