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When kids are young, sometimes you just can't believe the choices they make. Like the time my son decided he'd be a barber when he grew up and decided to practice on his little sister and took a chunk of hair out of the back of her head and a rather large snip from her bangs... what was he thinking! 

Then the time my daughter Kimberly tapped on the sliding glass door from the backyard and opened her mouth, stuck out her tongue and with the disgusted look on her face conveyed to me in no uncertain terms, that she didn't like the snail she had decided to taste.  What was she thinking!

My oldest daughter has always been quite an organized and thorough child and once she decided her tea set needed to be washed, so off to the bathroom she went... and into the toilet bowl went a healthy dollop of baby shampoo and the spoons, cups and saucers for a cleaning.  Well the suds finally stopped after about the 20th flushing and who knows if one of those spoons didn't find their way down and out through the plumbing.  What was she thinking!

Well, looking back now it's kind of easy to excuse those things as little issues, after all my son did not become a barber which is a blessing to all the haircut challenged males out there.  Kimberly hasn't developed any urges to chew on Marigolds and the last I checked doesn't leave a glistening trail behind her.  And I have had dinner many times with my daughter Kristen and I haven't tasted one bit of baby shampoo and have in fact noticed her use her kitchen sink for dishwashing.  Thankfully those 'What were you thinking moments" didn't leave them with any lasting, lifelong conditions, didn't make them suffer monumentous consequences or cause them any life complications. 

Unfortunately as adults, the choices that they make do have consequences that leave a mark, can have lifelong implications and complicate things and I find myself wondering "what were they thinking.'  I wish the choices were little again and wish they were too!