children

Do You Remember How To Be A Kid?

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My opinion is that to be a parent, you must remember how to be a kid.
We have had problems with our kids and temper tantrums within the last few months. It usually ends with them in their room for a timeout and my husband and myself are frustrated beyond all means.
In the last few weeks, I have realized that part of their problem is probably just needing extra attention and love. Sometimes I want to do other things like cleaning the house, baking something, or just taking a moment for myself. But I believe that the most important thing that parents can try and do is play and hang out with their kids as much as they can.

For the last few weeks, I have been trying hard to remember how to be a kid again. I have loved to play pretend stories with them with their toys, coloring, and even play hide and go seek. It’s fun to see how excited they get when I find them even if I find them hiding in the same spot again. The other day we were on a hunt to find the dinosaur’s family. Today I went to the “doctor” and got a check-up and all I needed was a bandaid.

My son always asks if I can play with him. Even though I may be busy I will take a few minutes and play with him because I know that will make his day and will help build a closer bond with him.

I forgot for a moment what it was like to be a kid. Kids are learning and growing. They need nurturing along with having fun. I have learned that in order to give the best to my kids I need to focus my priorities more on them. And to not worry about those other things at home. Those things can wait for a little bit. I have also found that I am becoming more patient with them as well.

Third Child

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Our youngest son is going to be one in a few days. Like everyone, he has a story. He was our surprise baby.


We were not thinking about having a third child. Our middle child was a challenging baby. She would not sleep by herself for almost the first year that she was born. We tried letting her cry it out, but that didn’t work. The girl has some strong lungs. It didn’t help that we moved provinces three months after she was born. So moving threw off routines and she was just a stubborn baby. So it was difficult, to say the least.

When we found out that we were expecting we were excited, but also a little stressed. All our kids were going to be 18 months apart and our older two were still in diapers.
So our goal was to get our kids out of diapers by the time baby was born. It didn’t work that way but didn’t take long after the baby was born to get our oldest out of diapers, so that was good.

We hoped and prayed that our third baby would be kind to us. We hoped that he would be a good calm baby. We knew that having two toddlers and a baby would be challenging for us.
We also didn’t know what gender our third would be. Since he was our surprise baby we thought why not have it be a surprise gender. My husband thought it would be a girl, but in my heart, I knew that it was going to be a boy and I was right.

Prayers were answered and he has been our calmest baby. He slept well as an infant, despite his loud siblings. He is my sweet boy who may not like cuddles, but he loves affection in other ways and one on one time. He does things when he wants to and on his own time and that is one thing that I love most about him.
When I was in labor with him I thought that he would come fast like his sister. However, as I walked around the hospital the first time that we went during the night to see if that would help get things moving and progressing, I felt that he was just not ready yet to come down to earth and that I was going to have to wait just a little bit more. But not to worry, he would come when he was ready.

We also know a few babies his age that are already walking and at first, it bothered me that our son is not walking yet, but then I remind myself that our son has other great qualities that these babies don’t have yet. Plus he has one of the cutest smiles on the earth; I might be a little biased.
I can’t imagine life without him. He has such a happy demeanor about him and he knows how to make me laugh.