So today in the car, Loulabelle asked if she could take off her shoes. I said YES.
Apparently it was the YES heard round the world, because my kids were shocked.
"Yes? Mom, did you say YES?"
Hmmmmm...maybe I should say it more.
Sunday, August 19, 2007
Apparently I don't say this enough.
If you read my last post about the battle over snack foods, then you saw my struggle with having to tell my kids NO all day. Sometimes I feel like a big meanie. I wonder what they think of me. But that is a whole nuther blog post, I am sure!
So today in the car, Loulabelle asked if she could take off her shoes. I said YES.
Apparently it was the YES heard round the world, because my kids were shocked.
"Yes? Mom, did you say YES?"
Hmmmmm...maybe I should say it more.
So today in the car, Loulabelle asked if she could take off her shoes. I said YES.
Apparently it was the YES heard round the world, because my kids were shocked.
"Yes? Mom, did you say YES?"
Hmmmmm...maybe I should say it more.
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That is funny, I need to look for more opportunities to say yes as well ;-)
Ya know, that reminds me one time when I was young...I wanted to take my shoes off outside and my mom usually wouldn't let my sister and I do that. I asked her and she said "I don't care..." meaning "sure, you can do it, I don't care..." Well, I interpreted her tone as "I don't CARE if you want to, I said you CAN'T"..and I stormed around being my pre-teen worst and said "you don't care about ANYTHING!!!!" to which my mom quietly replied "I said you could..that I didn't care if you did.." *gulp* I can still remember the horrible feeling I had that I had just been really ugly to my mom. I still remember it to this day, some 35 years later.....
I too am quick to say no and slow to say yes. So I check myself. I tell the kids, "Go ask your father. If he says yes, you can." Stuart is a big yes guy.
Kate
In the car on the way to eat tonight, Annie was singing, YES LORD, YES LORD, YES YES LORD, AMEN! I find myself needing to say YES to my kids, and to my Lord a LOT more.
Oh that is TOO funny. That reminded me of this - Keilani, who is 7, moves like a turtle. She is always in slow motion and I am always telling her to hurry because we are going to be late! Once, when we were on our way to church, I said, "Hmmm... we are early!" A few moments of silence was broken by a very sincere, "Mom, what does early mean?"
I think that Kai would think internally, "What does this word 'yes' mean? I don't know this word" if he heard it from me.
It reminds me of that baby shirt that says, "HELLO, my name is NO NO!"
Hilarious! I know EXACTLY how you feel about having to say no all the time. If they didn't ask so many darn questions. In reality, when you consider the number of questions they ask, the ratio of no answers to other answers might prove that we don't say no as much as we feel. Maybe I am over thinking this.
My boys ask an inordinate amount of questions as well, and I find myself saying no lots of times just to keep from having to think through the issue--weary, hot, trying to think about other things. Anyway, your story is funny, and the helpful reminder I needed to realign my perspective on when to say, "yes".
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