Faux Pas

Kids get away with everything. Uncouth behaviors that are unacceptable for adults are perfectly okay for children. I have often thought about this and wondered what it would be like if adults acted more like children. Skipping down the isles at the grocery store. Stomping feet and pouting when we can't have an ice cream cone. Shoveling fistfuls of jello in our mouths with our hands. Crying when we find out there is no more chocolate milk. Running around the front yard in your underwear. Shoving the person who took that last shirt on the clearance rack. Breaking out in song in the middle of Sunday School. Eating dog food...oh wait, that isn't even normal behavior for most children, just mine!

But kids do these kinds of things all the time and it's accepted, it's normal, and sometimes it's even cute. And it isn't just uncouth behaviors that kids can get away with, its also their appearance. It's okay for kids to go to the store without shoes and a shirt. It's okay for them to wear their pajamas all day. It's okay for them to "wear" their lunch. It's okay for them to have wild and crazy hair. And it is even cute when they have food stuck to their face...