Baffling Juvenile Humans

When the soft-spoken man used the word "baffling" to describe children, I knew the adjective was absolutely perfect. Earlier that day, I had watched my 3 year old take out his crayons and proceed to color on our white furniture right before my eyes. Like he stared at me directly in my eyes from across the room and dug into the piece. 

This is the behavior the man calls utterly unexplainable. And every parent has experienced it in some form, fashion, or restitution payment. I respect the man and value his opinion deeply not just because of his wisdom and advice but also because his children had long since grown. Unfortunately, he also revealed that the baffling doesn't end with grade school. No, no it continues from the juvenile to the adolescent to the young adult phases of human beings. 

So that means we have a lot of head scratching in our future. 

Seriously, what rationale person would think red crayon on a white hutch could be anything but acceptable? Juvenile human beings do, that's who. And when the little bugger caught me trying to rub the wax off the wood later that day, he sneered at me like I was spray-painting over his life's work. 

I'm certain there will be loads of baffling acts, questions and behaviors as life goes on. Im also sure that teenagers are ten times more baffling. 

But at this point I'm just glad to know that I will simply live a big chunk of my life absolutely baffled. I must accept the fact that there is likely no logical explanation for some of the behavior of these juvenile human beings, adolescent human beings and young adult human beings.