GTKY: Parenting Wins and Legacies

chickpea912 · April 2014

I often complain about my devil spawn child and offer to sell her on Facebook to the lowest bidder. I still maintain that there are days where that seems to be the only option for my sanity. And then I have mornings like this.

It wasn't a particularly amazing morning - I still had to bribe her with stickers to pry my phone out of her grubby little mitts so I could get her out of my bed and into her room to get dressed. And then she put on her undies (brand new My Little Pony ones - Applejack, to be specific) and pulled them up high over her belly button - so I did the only thing a good parent would do - taught her to say, in the appropriate nasal-y voice "Did I do thaaat?"

And then, in the car on the way to school, her Pandora Yo Gabba Gabba station (which has been taken over by Jackson 5 and Harry Belafonte because they are her new favorites and she makes sure I hit the Thumbs Up icon whenever they are on) played Brown Eyed Girl, which is now Our Song. (We both have brown eyes, so I'm her brown eyed girl, and she is mine)

Who knows what will happen today, but I call those two things parenting wins

So, what are you hoping to teach or pass along to your kiddo? If you already have a kid, what are your shining parenting moments?

Jennylou0604 · April 2014

Mines on the same page as @LoHerrim. Every morning when I drop DS off to daycare he runs into his class and then makes it a point to come running back to me, give me a kiss, and the biggest hug before I leave. Melts my heart every time.

erind228 · April 2014

I posted a few weekends ago about having to go to Chuck E. Cheese with my kids and my inlaws. It was awful and pretty much like purgatory, but there was a shining moment while we were there. My daughter (she's 3) climbed up into those tubes that lead down to a slide. (kind of like what they have at McDonald's) Anyway, she got scared, and I couldn't fit up there to "save" her, so I was sort of coaxing her to come down. As she was coming down, there were other(big) kids coming up the tubes, and I heard her say in her sweet little voice: "Excuse me, please." I know this is not a huge deal, but manners are really important to me, and it just made me proud of her. Not all kids use manners, I know......I'm a teacher.

tbmadeamistake · April 2014

C has been having trouble leaving me when I drop her off at daycare, and normally it involves my sticking around for a few minutes and one of her teachers trying to talk her into going to sit with them. It's sad. This morning she was totally content to give me a happy kiss goodbye and go and sit at the table without any fuss at all, it was magical! She's also been a super good helper around the house lately! She puts her own dirty clothes in the hamper at bath time and will throw trash away on her own as well. It's awesome!

sparklenshine_89 · April 2014

If I'm disciplining DS2.. DS1 will step in with a very serious face and say, "Mommy! Don't talk to my best friend like that." I'm loving that he sticks up for his brother and calls him his best friend.

nunzchucks · April 2014

Today I had mine. We went to a play group this morning and as we pulled up to the house, DD said, "Share toys with other kids!" Also, when the kids were playing on the swing set, she looks at me after her turn on the slide and said "Taking turns is fun!"
Lessons are soaking in!

flerlgirl · April 2014

DS is still pretty little but my recent win has been with entertaining him. He is old enough to want to play but is delayed and can't quite be left alone to play by himself. But he can roll. So I put him in our living room, literally surround him with all of his toys, and watch him roll from toy to toy. Sometimes I can get a whole hour out of that. He loves it and it's actually one of his PT exercises... win-win. Somebody high-five me.

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