Let Him Be...

    Let me introduce you to David (you will be hearing A LOT about him)! I could have published one of my many photo's of him looking adorable, but I don't think that would have done him justice! He is much more than a cute face. He is brilliant, busy, inquisitive, imaginative, and any "tive" you can think of-but more than anything he's a little...fresh. He is really fresh and I'll tell ya, I kinda love it!! Let me be clear though, he's great at school & fantastic with friends. But to me he's fresh! He locked me in our shed once while we were raking outside and my neighbor had to find the spare key.

 

   Once at a Home Goods he wanted a toy & I said NO, not liking that word he had an out right EPIC tantrum. While dragging him out of the store he was screaming "No, Please, Stop, Stop hurting me I'm just a baby, I'M JUST A BABY!!" While sitting on my porch that night wine in hand. I sat there and burst into laughter. How did he come up with that!? I mean our neighbor's boys who are ten and eight are always reminded that he is just a "baby" so they are not too rough with him. But putting it together like that...well that's just kind of brilliant? Like most Mom's I have millions of stories or (evidence) that my son is the ________ kid alive (insert your adjective here).

Call it rose colored glasses, or call it the bond between Mother & child.  I call it letting him be who he is and loving him for it-and with boundaries I think that's what we are all here for, to love our children for what makes them special.  In David's case he's a four-year-old, who chooses to test those boundaries, who also has better negotiation skills than Jim Sokolove it doesn't make him bad, it just means I have to be a smarter Mom.