parenting | Lessons from my daughter

Once a month, we visited the physiotherapist who showed us how to work/play with our daughter.

Emily is not quite 3… She’s not walking yet but her legs are getting better. We do stretches every day multiple times a day. She’s standing more, holding to furniture or holding to us.

Her legs are getting stronger, she can climb on the couch and can commando crawl!!!

All this is extremely exciting.

One day, I walked in the kitchen and saw:

I asked Emily how she got there. She didn’t talk so that really didn’t help to ask her but it never stopped me from talking to her and with her.

I called my husband to the kitchen and asked him if it was him who put her on the table.

He didn’t.

We looked at her again and realized that she must have climbed there on her own.

What an accomplishment?!?! We were super excited about this achievement but had to make sure she didn’t climbed there again!!!

That was a really strange situation where we wanted to celebrate a milestone and disciplined Emily all at once.

How would you have handled?

I took Emily out for a late lunch today.

She decided to wear a beautiful red dress I got her recently and off we went.

We parked a little far away from the restaurant and walked there… As we walked towards the Sushi place we passed a Subway restaurant. The place was pretty full mostly with teenagers…

A guy sitting by the window saw her, thought she was a hotty and tried really hard to get her attention.

A skateboarder, wearing a winter hat in July… he knocked in the window, waved and made flirty faces…..

I saw him!

Emily didn’t!

We kept walking and went to Pink Sushis!

If Emily would have been more typical or more like I was, I would have been in trouble…

She would have thought he was cute and asked for us to have lunch at Subway… She would have smiled at him and tried to get a name, maybe give her phone number…

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She would have probably tried to send me away on an errand so could hang-out with those guys…

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When sometimes I feel a little sorry for myself and for the things she is not able to do, I remind myself that as a typical 15 year old girl, she could be getting out of the house at night by climbing out of the basement window, she could try to get her hands on our alcohol and she could be dating some 20 year old guy….

Not that I did all these things….

I never climbed out of a window!!!

🙂

My daughter is an amazing teenager! I told her about the guy once we were at the sushis restaurant. She was flattered that he noticed her but didn’t try to get me back to Subway to check him out!

And this is why I am lucky she is not completely like me!!!

Anything you’ve done you don’t want your kids to do?