Maybe they’ll become more organized, realize they’re good at sports, or their teachers will report how kind and thoughtful they’ve become with maturity.īut we never think that part of letting our kids be who they really are means letting them be their worst selves as well. When we think about letting our kids blossom and develop into their own selves, we think about letting them blossom into their best selves. It’s my kid’s time to find out who he is, on his own, without me doing the work (or the nagging) for him. Some of it doesn’t affect me, some does, but it all sounds like a nag when relayed by me. I only got stepped on by 47 million shoppers.īut I feel like at 10 years old, he’s at that age where everything that comes out of my mouth is nagging because there are always shoelaces untied for no reason, messy handwriting, clothes on the floor, hair that begs to be brushed, and plates that never get cleared. And it makes me nuts because he already got them caught in an escalator, and we had to remove the shoe from his foot so he could get off without losing a limb, and then I had to, you guessed it, MacGyver the shoelace out to save the shoe. It makes me nuts because he ruins the laces, and then, yes, you guessed it, I get to add “find shoelaces” to that ever long to-do list. It makes me nuts because he’s going to bite the dust one day and get hurt, all because of the damned laces. My big one walks around all day, all the time, with his shoes untied. I can’t tell if this is a great act of strategic parenting, or if I’ve just started on the slippery slope of not giving a shit, but I’ve finally given up on the shoelaces.
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