Wed love to hear your experiences of noticing any pressures to out-do yourself! For a few years, I got caught up in the Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better parenting model, which mandates you scour Pinterest for the best ideas, execute them flawlessly, and then share the photo evidence with strangers and friends via blogs and Facebook posts. Suddenly, it came to me: We do not need to make our childrens childhood magical. Childhood is inherently magical, even when it isnt perfect. My childhood wasnt perfect and we werent rich by any stretch of the imagination, but my birthdays were still happy because my friends came over. It wasnt about the party bags, perfect decorations, or any of that. We popped balloons, ran around in the backyard, and we had cake. Simple. But when I look back on those times, they were magical. Christmas. With four of us kids and a limited income, my parents bought maybe two gifts per kid. There was no Elf on the Shelf all month long monitoring our activities and getting into photo-worthy trouble. No special Christmas jammies. Very few decorations, if any. We didnt even make cookies. What made that time of year simply ethereal for me as a child was huddling in one bed with my brothers thinking we could hear Santas reindeer on the roof. It was so much fun to try to stay awake, giggle together, and just anticipate the next morning. It was magical. I did not feel as if I lacked for anything. I dont have a single memory of doing a craft with my parents. Crafts were something I did in preschool and primary school. The only crafts I recall were the ones my mother created in her spare time. The hum of her sewing machine would often lull me to sleep as she turned scrap cloth into hair accessories to sell and hemmed our clothes. huffingtonpost/bunmi-laditan/im-done-making-my-kids-childhood-magical_b_5062838.html
Posted on: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 19:03:04 +0000
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