Parental Flexibility

Being a parent means becoming flexible and learning to roll with the punches. Please allow me to indulge in a little story from this morning ....

8.39am - Me to Miss 6 - "Quick. Time to do your hair before we go to school". (We are normally in the car ready to leave as the bell rings at 8.45am.)

I start brushing her hair and notice something crawling in there. Upon closer inspection I discover that an infestation of nits has decided to interrupt our morning routine and has determined that we will not in fact be getting to school on time this morning and I will indeed be late for my 9.30am commitment.

In years past, this would have stressed me to no end and anxiety would have immediately kicked in. This morning, there were no signs of Mr Anxiety at all.

With a deep breath I said to her "Well I guess we'll have to get these cheeky buggers out before either of us is going anywhere today!". I contacted my co-facilitator to make sure she would be there for kick off time at 9.30am. And then we started the de-nitting process.

Any mother is familiar with this process and it is one of my most detested duties to carry out.

As we were carrying out said task, Miss 6 started to worry that she would be late for school. I assured her that we would get her there by the end of the day and that she wasn't missing out on too much.

I told her that the universe must have decided that we needed a little more time together this morning and had invited the nits to come to visit. She seemed pretty impressed with this and was also mightily impressed with the size of the livestock coming out of the coming process!

She pondered if nits did in fact have eyes. I confirmed that I wasn't sure, but we could ask Mr Google this afternoon when she got home from school.

Forty minutes later the de-nitting process was complete, hair was washed, uniform back on, hair was subsequently put up into a very tight bun and then enthusiastically sprayed with a tonne of hair spray to attempt to deter the cheeky buggers.

Moral of the story ...... things don't always go to plan. We always have a choice in how we react. We can choose to be drawn into drama and stress or we can choose to take the positive learnings that are available to us at every opportunity. We can draw upon the resources and reach out and ask for assistance when we know we need it.

What will you choose when things don't go the way you'd planned today?

Happy Friday and big love to you wherever you may be today xxxx <#