Has this happened to you: You have things you must do, and no option but to bring along your child?
Sharing with our kids our grown-up adventures can be great unplanned interventions.
We parents sometimes forget that these passing minutes are our lives also.
We may struggle with balancing time and attention for individual kids, ourselves, and Family Movie Night.
Less than easy, and yet our time with our kids is going by at the speed of light.
(For this conversation, let’s assume our kids make the jump to independence.)
Here’s an example of an unplanned risk:
We were parked in the far corner of the Taco Bell parking lot, under the only shade tree.
With our drive-through sitting on our laps.
Fancy fundraiser event. He was the only kid “hanging out” with Mom.
He asked to go to the bathroom by himself.
So I let him make a run for it, with a “watch for cars!” in his ears.
Risky, right?
After eating, he wanted to do it again.
So he went solo on a trash run.
Hot. Complaining.
Dabbing in the Rain