Raising children can be the most rewarding experience of your life. They can bring joy and pleasure to you. Sometimes may not bring too much joy. This is when children become the teacher. You become the pupil. Here are lessons that you may learn from them.
Children can be of great assistance in the kitchen. They may also be a huge liability. You might wish to use the electric rice cooker. These cookers work well for steaming vegetables. They are not good for streaming crayons. Things like this may have you more steamed than dinner. Lesson one: rice cookers must be kept on a high shelf.
Who does not love the artwork of young people? Your refrigerator door may have amazing exhibits. Those same works of art are not as appreciated on your living room wall. It is not as easy to remove them from the wall either.
Often times these works of wall art have mysterious origins. If you ask several children about the artist, they will not know who it was. This may be a mystery for the ages. Lesson two: wall art has unknown origins.
When children damage property, it is not usually on purpose. They do not possess adult mental faculties. Your child may like to make mud pies. He or she would use your Kitchenaid hand mixer, without a second thought. Their destruction is not mean or vengeful. It comes natural. Lesson three: hand mixers need special storage areas.
Children helping parents is a great learning tool. For some reason, children always wish to help at the most inopportune times. When there are groceries to be carried in, they are nowhere to be found. If you need help consuming those groceries, there is an abundance of help. Lesson four: bring groceries home at dinnertime.
Children are adept at getting out of household chores. They will do a pitiful job, sometimes. They are aware that you can do the job. It is easier for you to do the job than to supervise them. Lesson five: make them repeat it, until they get it right.
Music can sometimes be a problem. It is not so much the music, as it is the volume. When dealing with music volume, you can employ the Mcculloch chainsaw rule. Start your chainsaw up. If you can still hear the music, it must be turned off for one week. Lesson six: you can discipline kids and perform chainsaw maintenance in one step.
Final thoughts
There will be great rewards as well as challenges with children. You will learn far more than you will teach. Go out and get your education. You can use it for spoiling grandchildren at some point.