So, this happened... and it needed to be told.
Because as grown-ups, we forget, so much of what it looks like, from “their” perspective… their .. equals… kids.
We, as parents, were trying to convince one of our kids to take up this one activity while she was trying to get us to agree to her taking up another activity, you know, normal parenting negotiations!
(So we agreed to do both, we COMPROMISED)
Regardless, while we were doing that verbally, my other child and I were “wrestling” and invariably as it always does, this time, he stepped on my foot… MY FOOT!!! MY RIGHT FOOT!
(Usually, he head butts me but that’s for another time..)
He is extremely lucky, IMHO, that I have a huge tolerance for pain. I mean, I have had a toe dangling off my foot while I limp-shopped my way through Sam’s Club, a Walmart and another such store BEFORE stopping at the doctor's office.
Because I am a parent and have the right to make him feel horrible about it, I begin limping and telling everyone in the house how much it hurt. Everyone noticed how it was blue and had a weird vein sticking out. The whole foot seemed bigger than the other one (DUH!)
My daughter tries to make him feel bad, and this happened..
D: OMG! You did this to mom?!
S: Well, she was tickling me…
Me: It’s okay, we were just horsing around..
S: …. And we couldn’t hold our horses!!!!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
OMG! I have been laughing crying since then coz it’s funny but it hurts like DASH…!
May we all remember to give them a chance to show us what it looks like from their viewpoint, from where they stand... AT THEIR eye level!
We couldn’t hold our horses..?? Really??!!! It’s good he is cute!
Adios Amigos, until next time (I will wrap this foot in something “neigh”-painful, I promise!)
Sweta Shah Sakhpara is a pranic energy therapist and a pranic psychotherapist. She also teaches mindfulness and meditation to kids, adults and families. When she is not doing any of the above, she actively practices being a mindful parent to two kids.
Having learned and practiced pranic healing for ~fifteen years, Sweta has been blessed with the trust of many clients for ailments as simple as a headache to complex ones like Tourette’s syndrome, from depression and anxiety to finding ways to embrace the idea of a new normal with a child being diagnosed on the spectrum. You could read more about her HERE.
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