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Its that time of year again... the kids are out of school and I'm pulling together all my resources to plan for the summer. THIS will be the year that we stick to a routine. THIS will be the summer that my kids read and practice math everyday. We'll have daily exercises and chores.
Oh who am I kidding?! We'll be lazy-ing it up on the couch watching three separate youTube channels all day everyday. There are 73 days of summer over here. That's 11 weeks. No teachers. No school. What on earth am I going to do with them?! Instead of fighting the screen time battle, I'm planning (plans get broken a lot around here, but we'll do our best, ha!) to introduce my kids to all the epic movies we early millennials grew up adoring. Here is our short list, keep in mind we've indoctrinated our children with Disney already ;) 1. Free Willy 2. Hook 3. The Secret Garden 4. Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey 5. Babe 6. My Girl 7. Space Jam 8. Matilda 9. An American Tail: Fievel Goes West 10. The Parent Trap 11. Little Giants 12. The Little Rascals 13. The Neverending Story 14. Stuart Little 15. The Indian in the Cupboard 16. 101 Dalmatians (live) 17. Beethoven 18. Honey I Shrunk the Kids 19. Dennis the Menace Zach, after spending 12 hours at school and helping me run an event, catches me in the teacher's lounge washing dishes....
"Mom, I just wanted to take a moment to tell you that I love you and you're the best mom ever! Can I have a hug and a kiss?" He was tired, probably hungry. I was expecting him to walk in and complain. But no, he chose to honor his mom and exude patience. After totally losing my tears, it hit me. I realized that parenthood is about being an example. You see, I had been running around setting everything up. I kept a smile on my face and a positive attitude throughout all the stressful moments and hard work. After years of yelling, nagging my kids to do things and to be good, I feel like I'm finally getting the hang of this parenting thing. I stopped yelling and started transforming myself. Instead of chiding my children to "Say please, say thank you, work hard, and clean your room!" I started to SAY please, SAY thank you, WORK hard, and CLEAN MY ROOM." Well, I'm still working on that last part ;) |