To Follow Suit?

After a couple of hiccups, we eventually met up with Catherine, my long lost touch friend, at Compass Point.

It's been at least 2 years since the last time I met up with her, which was also after a break of many years and this is the 1st time she's seeing Renee 'properly'. However, this naughty girl has to disappoint me by not just interrupting us whilst we chatted during/after lunch, she even made a rude comment that deeply embarrassed me... It had affected me badly 'cos this is the 1st time she's made such remark(dun ask me what she said) and what made it worse is that she did it on her very first meet-up with someone whom used to be a close friend of mine.

Although she had apologised(upon my prompting) and had held on to Cat's hand voluntarily when we went to get the materials for her coming Art classes, it still wouldn't undo what she's done. One may argue that she's still young but we must not condone such behaviour/attitude/choice of words and have to teach her right from wrong when she's young, else she might think it's really ok or even cute to do so.

I kept my cool til we got home and the minute her Papa heard it, he was also very upset. I tried to avoid speaking to her as much as possible but I spanked her during shower 'cos she hadn't shown sincere remorse earlier. She had cried earlier when her Papa was reprimanding her but it's only this time that her cries had sounded more 'sorry' and I took the opportunity to reinforce the ideas of some of the 'wrong doings and why she shouldn't have done them' stuffs to her.

Earlier, Hubby had told her when she was hving her dinner that we would not be giving her a 'full' birthday celebration next year if she still doesn't behave properly and it seemed like she had not taken his words too seriously and got distracted, so he repeated. He even told me that we should stop celebrating her birthdays and then I remembered what PC had once told me, that we shouldn't keep celebrating birthdays for our children and hubby agreed that we should perhaps follow her lead - to only give a 'full celebration' on their next 'milestone(or rather 'mile-year'? lolz)', like 1 year old, K2 or Primary 1/6. I'm not sure if he'd seriously adhere to this idea but I don't mind, just as long as she doesn't become too 'naughty' with too many celebrations. I've also told him that if we really are going to adopt this idea, then we can also follow what my sisters had done for their children on the 'non-significant' years - just a cake at gatherings to mark her birthday, we'll see...