years ago when the kids were little i read in some parenting book that to encourage your kids to appreciate and truly care for each other it is sometimes helpful to do activities to encourage love. of course, i tried them all and experienced moderate success. my kids are older now and they still fight like crazy people, but i'd like to think that somewhere in their hearts they do love each other. (this is certainly questionable and up for debate.)
so, we used to do this activity where we said things we loved about each other. a variation of this activity that the kids started doing lately is to say things about each other that they wish they had for themselves. they are usually physical traits (three of my four kids are quite vain), but if i am within hearing distance i try to encourage more altruistic traits like, y'know, "i love your enthusiasm for life," "i love your calm nature in the face of extreme stress." but, usually they just continue with, "i love your cheekbones. i really wish i had them." "i love the number of instagram followers you have." (because, y'know, they're teenagers, not humanitarians.)
the other day, while the four of them were playing the "game," girl 2 said, "oh my god! i know! let's have mom play with us! let's all think of traits of mom's we'd love!!!"
*crickets*
after a good two minutes of complete silence, girl 1 (the one child who is not vain and who is actually quite profound), said, "well, i'd have to say, and this might sound really shallow, if i had to have one of mom's traits, i'd really love her hairlessness."
happy mother's day! i hope it was........waxed.
2 comments:
Hilarious!!!
Funny! Thanks for sharing. Glad to see you are blogging again...
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