Children can bring great joy into your life. Raising them can be a true pleasure. However, there may be times, when they are not so pleasurable. During those times, they become the teacher. You are the student. Here are some lessons they may teach you.
Children can be of great assistance in the kitchen. They may also be a huge liability. You might wish to use the electric rice cooker. These cookers work well for steaming vegetables. They are not good for streaming crayons. Things like this may have you more steamed than dinner. Lesson one: rice cookers must be kept on a high shelf.
Who does not love the artwork of young people? Your refrigerator door may have amazing exhibits. Those same works of art are not as appreciated on your living room wall. It is not as easy to remove them from the wall either.
The amazing works of art on your wall, can be very mysterious. Often times, no one has any idea where they came from. This makes them one of life’s mysteries. Lesson two: Murals on your wall come from the great unknown.
When children damage property, it is not usually on purpose. They do not possess adult mental faculties. Your child may like to make mud pies. He or she would use your Kitchenaid hand mixer, without a second thought. Their destruction is not mean or vengeful. It comes natural. Lesson three: hand mixers need special storage areas.
Children helping parents is a great learning tool. For some reason, children always wish to help at the most inopportune times. When there are groceries to be carried in, they are nowhere to be found. If you need help consuming those groceries, there is an abundance of help. Lesson four: bring groceries home at dinnertime.
Many children have become adept at not doing things. They realize that they can do a pitiful job at something. You may not ask them to repeat the task. It is often more work to supervise them, than to do it yourself. Lesson five: persistence is a virtue.
There are times when music is an issue. The biggest issue is usually volume. You may be able to use the Mcculloch chainsaw rule. This rule is simple. Start the chainsaw. Can you still hear the music? There is no music for one week. Lesson six: chainsaw maintenance and child discipline may be simultaneous.
Final thoughts
Raising children can be as challenging as it is rewarding. They will teach you more things than you can possibly teach them. Go with the flow and receive your education. It will come in handy, when there are grandchildren to spoil.
