Sunday, January 23, 2011

On Your Side




1. Know your kid and his or her limits.









  1. Terry8:01 AM

    Perfectly spoken.

  2. Miflohny11:46 AM

    Thanks for the compliment to Little Seal - I hope he lives up to it. (And I always love the surprise of seeing his face.)

    And I wholeheartedly agree with your post. The first paragraph isn't said enough, and the rest is rarely said as well.

  3. Thank you! Everyone here and on Facebook has been so understanding and nice about this post. Which proves, of course, that my friends are the smartest and coolest. On the other hand, what's wrong with the rest of the world? How can they not know?

  4. amen.

    my parents taught me with the wonders of PBS. they figured if i couldn't sit through that, i wouldn't be able to sit through a show. they were right. why can't parents give that a go nowadays? why must they insist on making the event all about them and their pwecious sweetums, THEN throw a fit and yell at the child later? it's not the kid's fault...they're kids.

  5. hearty amen from me, and you know how squirrely my youngest can be! of course you take them out when they start major distractions, why on earth would you sit there and let them mess it up for everyone else?? they are KIDS and can't be expected to stick it out, if they're fascinated and do then by all means, but you should know your kid and their limits well enough to build in some backup plans, like a hasty exit. done it many a time :). how can they not know, indeed.

  6. Yeah, F is squirrelly but even he knows that and has systems in place for it. "It's reading time. I'm supposed to be reading a book about crystals with the lady who came over to steal from my button collection. I can't hack this, it's too weirdly exciting. I need to... I need to .... I will get a crystal! I will weight myself down with an enormous crystal and I can do it." And he does.

  7. well said, my friend.

  8. Yes, yes, yes; a thousand times, YES!