“Please be quiet for just five seconds…please!” How many times have you uttered something similar to your children over the course of their lifetime…so far? My bet would be quite a few and if you haven’t, then you must have some damn good coping skills!
Lately, I have been trying my hardest to find ‘the calm’ deep inside of me during stressful situations, but with three very energetic, opinionated, spoiled, and spirited kids, calm can sometimes be extremely hard to find! For example, whenever my 16 year-old is yelling at me because she doesn’t have anything to wear as she shows me her closet packed tightly full of brand-new clothes or when my 9 year-old accidentally hits me in the head with a Nerf dart and it falls into our poor Betta fish bowl! Oh, and this is all going on while my 13 year-old follows me around the house all day telling me how bored she is and wanting to know “what we’re doing next” after we just pulled in from a parade, sleepover, and ball practice. Obviously, I don’t yell at them every time this happens, but I do find myself yelling way too much because it’s just downright stressful and extremely irritating!
I am also well aware of how quickly time is flying by and that I shouldn’t sweat the small stuff, so I am going to attempt to make a conscious effort to ‘go with the flow’ the next time:
- We are in a store and the three of them are giving each other piggyback rides, throwing balls across the aisle, begging for $500 electronics, pushing each other into mannequins, and knocking each other to the floor.
- I am also going to try to bite my tongue whenever we get into the car and they start fighting because someone is looking too much at the other.
- I am going to try to remain quiet when we get home and a full-blown wrestling match breaks out because someone was breathing too heavy.
- I will also try to count to 10 when a picture flies off the wall during that same wrestling match and all 3 proclaim, “It wasn’t me!”
After all, I am going to miss this, right?!
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