Soooooo... was this wrong?

[bobkitty]

Even after a decent therapy session yesterday, I was still all kinds of ticked off at the SKs for not calling Mr. Kitty. So when class was over last night, I called BM. She wasn't home, but I left a message on her voicemail to the tune of "Hi, it's bobkitty. When you have a moment, I was wondering if you could do me a favor. Could you touch base with your children and have them call their father to wish him a happy post-father's day? I'm sure y'all were busy yesterday and time just got away, but Mr. Kitty was pretty hurt, no matter how much he'll deny it. They'll probably end up getting his voicemail, but they can go ahead and leave a message, since it's better than nothing. 'Preciate it. Bye."

Oh, it felt goooooooooood. Really, really good. Of course I'm still waiting for the fallout from it, so the goodness is a fleeting sort of thing, but I'm kinda proud of myself. I don't know how Mr. Kitty will react if he gets wind of it. What do y'all think?

-BK

Comments

[whyaduck.livejournal.com]

I don't know about Mr. Kitty, but personally I'd rather have no call at all than a forced/pity call. It's just not right that they didn't call him in the first place.

[geobabe1.livejournal.com]

I think they need to know that they hurt him by neglecting him on Father's Day, so I'm with ya. I was awfully selfish when I was younger, and I had to be told that it hurt my dad's feelings when I didn't call him to thank him for birthday presents and so forth. It had never occurred to me that he didn't just KNOW that I appreciated it and that I needed to make the effort to thank him. Kids are by nature self-centered and have to be taught to think of others.

[thinksnow.livejournal.com]

What she said.
It might be good to knock them out of their self-centeredness for a bit, and maybe say "thank you for being dad."