parenting | Lessons from my daughter

Earlier this week, I received this from Emily

I read Emily’s text once and knew exactly what happened.

She plugged her Sony speaker in the kitchen and Jake tore it apart.

I looked at how she quantified her emotions by adding “so” in front of upset and I truly appreciated how she added a picture when she didn’t know how to spell “plug for my speaker”.

She’s resourceful!

My girl texted me a nearly perfect sentence with a picture to complement it.

I am so proud of her.

Following the reception of the text, I called her.

Hi baby

Hi mom, I’m so upset!

I know, what happened?

It’s ruined! Jake eat it.

Yeah, I saw that. Did you yell at Jake?

I wanted to but no.

Did you hit him?

I wanted to but I don’t do that.

Good! You know that yelling or hitting won’t fix it right and Jake is a big dog so I’m glad you didn’t do anything. Did you tell dad?

No, he’s working.

Good!

Did you learn something?

….

Em, did you learn something?

…

How about you don’t plug things over the dog’s pillow?

Yeah.

Ok, we will buy you another plug. Just move your speaker somewhere safe for now.

Ok.

Love you.

Love you too.

I smiles through this whole conversation. So pleased with the young lady I am raising.

Following this conversation, I forwarded all the info to hubby who works from home and was in the house when this happened.

I needed him to know so he would continue with the same attitude I showed and not over react when he came upstairs for his break.

I was so proud of Emily and not just for her awesome text but mostly for not over reacting, not creating a situation where our 85 lbs dog could have over powered her and for not bothering her father with this.

What a change we’ve seen in the last couple of years.

Emily is maturing and tutoring is paying off, she’s reading and writing more.

I can only imagine that this is how the dogs looked like after this adventure.

PS. I know I’ve been MIA lately! We were traveling in Alberta and British Columbia (Canadian Rockies and West coast). I will tell you about our trip soon but I strongly suggest you start following Lessons from my daughter on Facebook in order to see more pictures as I can’t possibly put them all here 🙂

I hope to see you soon over there!

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Over the years, Emily has been awarded the title of fashion advisor.

She is a really honest advisor who normally tells me that I look awesome…

That changed this morning

I walked in Emily’s room as per usual and asked her what she thought of my outfit.

I was wearing a skirt and a white top.

She said : “Meh!”

I asked her what she meant by “meh!”.

She pointed at my outfit and said that’s too much white and it doesn’t go with the pretty skirt.

I left the room and came back with a great faux-leather jacket.

Emily was still not sold but it was “Better!”

I added a necklace and got the passing grade!

And there I was under the impression we had a deal where I asked her opinion and she paid me a compliment.

Now I know for a fact that when she tells me I look awesome, she thinks it!

That is my silver lining!

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