It is okay if your son whose hair you first had trimmed at three weeks of age and you have continued to groom obsessively and often now wants to grow it long. Over his ears even. It is okay.
It is okay if he doesn't think the super fast running shoes that you think would be the ideal school shoes are cool. For three years in a row.
It is okay if your daughters whose hair is finally long enough to braid and wear in a variety of cute accessories now both want Dorothy Hamil do's right before school starts.
It is okay to let your older daughter pack her own suitcase from time to time.
It is okay if your smaller daughter, out of a closet full of darling garments, chooses to wear a large t-shirt so long it covers her shorts, with socks, with Crocs (fake black ones), out for a day of shopping with her hair clean and combed, but down.
It probably not very nice, but it is also okay if your son tells her she looks like she doesn't belong in our family on said outing.
These are lessons I have learned lately.
Small, but huge. Let kids be kids. Let them be themselves. Let them make some decisions and live with them.
And above all...lighten the heck UP!
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3 comments:
I feel lighter than ever now!! Wahoo!
-kw
Send all your ill-groomed chilluns over here. They'd fit in fine with my family, black crocs (fake) and all!
Amen now.
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