Karate Kid and Egg

Hello Mommy World! It's been a while since I last visited you in cyberspace but I'm back and with a big egg splated on my face. In my attempt to be a great mom and spend some time with my 3 year old son outside of the house, I took him (and a few others) to see the remake of "The Karate Kid" that opened in theatres this past weekend. I'm thinking to myself that this would be great for him to see a little boy (who he resembles strangely) in action. But to my dismay, this may not have been such a great idea.

Later on that day, we were home and he and his little cousin were in the living room playing. He runs down the hall to my room and says to me, "Mommy, I beat her. I'm gonna win!" He then turns around and runs back towards the living room and his little cousin. Within five minutes, my little cousin comes to my room and tells me that my son hit her on his back. I called my son to my room and asked him why he hit her. He then proceeded to show me some Karate moves and said, "Mommy I beat her. I'm going to win!" It then dawned on me that he was repeating the moves he saw on the movie and repeating the same words he was saying to me in the movie theatre about the boy character in the movie. "Mommy, he beat him. The boy's goina win! Mommy, he won!" Like the character, my son wanted to win.

I didn't think beforehand that this would be the outcome of him watching this film. However, I should have known because at 3, he is VERY impressionable and is in copycat mode. A friend of mine (along with her husband) owns Martial Arts studios and want him to get involved. I was on board at first but now I'm not so sure that he is in the right frame of mind to be able to handle that type of instruction.

Bloggers, what do you think? Post your comments.

Till next time,
Aurellia