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Parenting peacefully(ish)
This weekend was amazing, I got to clean the house. Do the dishes, clean bathrooms, all that fun stuff. Outside of the regular mom fun, I was able to spend some time in the backyard with my kids. I also learned the power of the parenting phrase, "what is the harm?"
Toddlers are never happy
After dragging the bounce house out, they decided it was too hot and didn't want to bounce more than 10 mins. So, they moved on to the playhouse. My daughter brought out their grill and begin to cook. My son decided he wanted to play with other toys. He went in the house for a moment, then returned. After a little bit, I see my kids dragging their chairs out to the middle of the yard. As they began to situate their chairs as only toddlers can, I gave them a beach umbrella so they could have a little shade. In true toddler fashion, they could not get the chairs how they wanted them.
Why do they need more chairs?
My son said, "I need to go inside. I want the green chairs." Fine, no big deal. "Go ahead," I said. Now, I could have approached this request differently: Why do they need more chairs when they had chairs? "You have chairs, no." "No, you aren't going inside again. Stay out here and play." "If you go in you stay in." Instead, I let him be. At the end of the day, what was the harm of letting him go inside for the chairs he wanted? There was no harm in saying, "okay, go ahead."
He went in and came out with two green chairs. Little did I know, this child and his sister had a plan. They proceeded to take the 4 chairs, to create lounge seats! I wish I could take credit for this plan, but I can't. It was the cutest thing I'd seen from them. My two toddlers figured out how to relax in the backyard after a long afternoon of playing.
They may have sat there for 15 mins, but it was a moment I won't forget. Never underestimate toddlers who are allowed to be kids. It also has me looking for kid size lounge chairs. "What is the harm?" The only harm was preventing kids from being kids, trying something new, and missing out on this toddler sibling moment.
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