We took the kids to a science museum over Spring Break and I got a HUGE revelation. I am a lazy parent. Not one who lies on the couch, watching tv and eating the proverbial bon bon...but when it comes to my kids and interacting with them; I'm SO lazy. Unintentional. I learned this when we visited the Kidspace area of the museum. There were children and parents EVERYWHERE. As P was toddling everywhere, M was locked in the "big kids area" and R was stomping over pirate ships, all I could think was, "I wish I could sit down somewhere." As I'm feeling sorry for myself, I see mom #1 having a puppet show with her little girl, dad #2 having a pretend sword fight with his son, mom #3 sprawled in the floor building a block tower. Hmmm, me, not so much. God checked me. Let the revelating begin.
So when I got home I came across a link on Pinterest from a lady named Alissa from "Creative with Kids" and she was issuing a challenge for "showing kindness to your kids." When I first saw this, I thought, "I'm kind to my kids...this won't be hard." Then I read the ideas. Yikes. Some of those required a lot of me. Maybe I'll skip that one. The boys won't care about that one... then I thought to myself, "Self, the children won't look back on their lives with me and think, 'Boy I sure am glad mom did so much laundry and took so much time picking up the crap we left ALL over the house...that meant so much to me.' Nope they'll probably do what I am now thinking, 'I know my mom loved me, she sacrificed a lot for me, but she never played with me.' I don't care if they think I was a cool, fun mom, but I do care that their memories were of me spending time with them. And if I keep on the track I'm on now, it ain't a happenin.
I printed off the 100 suggestions and I'm determined to NOT let this new challenge to die on the road to Hell paved with good intentions. Not only am I the Queen of Lazy Land, but I am also Queen Inconsistancy. I start with tee-riffic ideas but usually by day 4, it's at the bottom of the God knows where.
I'm starting Monday. I'm doing this. I want kindess from my children, so I'm going to sow it into them. I want activity from M, because quite frankly, his pupils are so big from vegging out in the dark basement playing video games and his skin SO white from lack of Vitamin D exposure...is it any wonder? It's because I don't model it. I have so many important things to do, like *gasp* load the dishwasher! This will be my accountability. I will log each thing I do here as a reminder to myself the law of sowing and reaping.
Here we go!
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