We have had a small garden for two years now. I can’t take any credit for it, it is all my husband’s doing. I also wish I could say that I am better about getting the kids out there to help weed.
In the end, Matt usually makes it fun and gets us all out there together. We were out weeding the other night and the weeds were BAD. My tween was right there next to me helping pull all the weeds. I was making some major progress and dripping sweat when I look up and my tween was no longer weeding next to me. I bit my tongue and tried not to tell him to ‘get working’. Instead I watched him and his little sister and was delighted. They were making mud bombs and having the time of their life. The question goes through my head, should I tell them both to stop playing and get working? Or should I let them go on with their fun and make happy memories together? I guess the answer for that would be different with each parent. I chose to let them play. I weeded the whole garden by myself…but, we were outside as a family, we were all having fun, they pulled weeds here and there and now know how to do it. In that moment I felt like them being happy and having fun together was more important then being the drill sargent and getting them to pull weeds.
Isn’t that pretty typical of parenthood? Situations are always different and you want to make the right choice for your tween…..do you let them throw mud bombs or keep weeding?
My choice, that day…….bombs away!!!!
