Today I am
thankful for two new “parenting tools” I instituted lately.
First, an
extremely intelligent pre-school teacher taught Gigi a new saying that has
become the Garnett family motto – You get what you get and you don’t pitch a
fit.
Genius. It may not work when they’re 14 and 15, but
right now, those are magic words.
Next, I
restarted something that I used when Haley and Karlie were young. It’s called “your day”. Yuri has odd days, and Gigi has even
days. On “your day”, you get to pick
everything… what cartoon is watched, which seat in the car to ride in, which
chair at the kitchen table to sit in, etc.
You can’t believe how much this has cut down on bickering about whether
to watch “The Princess and the Frog” or “Chicken Run”.
So, there
you go. I seldom give parenting tips,
because… well, because I don’t have any.
I fly by the seat of my pants, so this is as close to helpful hints as I
can get.
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