The rest of your life (as parents) starts....
when your kids can make their own lunches!
Niall has been really *into* doing his own thing in the kitchen lately-- including getting snacks, preparing toast with peanut butter (for a "lunch"), etc.! It's super awesome to see. There is a lot of evidence that American parents "hover" and "overparent" too much, doing things for our kids that they can obviously do themselves, either to be "attentive" or because we are perfectionists with our own anxieties about efficiency, messes, etc. The Japanese show on Netflix "Old Enough" has helped us as well as our kids figure out all the amazing things that our young kids are capable of doing... if we'd just let go a bit!
Now, if only we can convince this kid that it would be great to go to the bathroom (AND WIPE!) independently.... sigh.
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