That moment your 5 YO keeps asking you to get him a snack and you assure him he can get it (because you’re in the middle of a project and don’t feel like getting up).
He asks. You ignore. He asks. You ignore.
He says, “Fine. I’ll get it myself.”
He does.
He’s shocked.
You smile.
He hugs you…shocked.
Yeah. That moment…
Jacob had a dream of a pie. Seriously. He really did. So we made it. Ok. So, here’s my plan. I want my boys to cook…correction…to LOVE cooking and cook the family meals by the time they’re 11. As Jacob is 10.5 now, I don’t think I’m on schedule, but at least they enjoy cooking!…
I don’t know if other parents do this, but I limit my boys’ “electronic time” (what it’s called in our house). I limit it because I think children should have time to be alone with their thoughts and to explore the limitless possibilities of their imagination. So, my boys are required to have “imagination time.”…
My neighbor has a beautiful tree that is never watered nor cared for. It is between our houses but has begun growing over my fence into my backyard. It had begun looking so pitiful to me that I began watering it this past spring. Over time, I noticed that the parts of the tree that…
I set my son free today. I wasn’t prepared for what happened before I set him free, but there I was with it up close and personal. My 7 YO son had developed stereotypes despite my good intentions of shielding him from them. What I apparently failed to realize was I was shielding him from…
courage – M.E. corage, fr. OF cuer (heart), Latin cor -more at heart “mental or moral strength to resist opposition, danger, or hardship…implies firmness of mind and will in the face of danger or extreme difficulty.” –Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary The summer of my junior year in high school I determined that I would…