Less is MORE Parenting Style
I was reading a Boston Moms Blog article recently - which I do often. The Boston Moms Blog group posts various articles to facebook, and they tend to repost blogs from other cities, not just Boston specific. This one below happens to be from Austin and it quickly resonated with me. I don't know much about this Mom, but I feel like she took the words right out of my mouth. "I want their childhood to be slower-paced. Why do we have to participate in so many activities and birthday parties and errands and programs and meetings? My children are happy just staying home and playing with a cardboard box...I want their childhood to be spent enjoying life, boldly, without a nervous, anxious, worrisome mama on the sidelines, holding them back. Climb as high as you want in the trees. Eat the damn popsicle with the artificial color and flavoring, the very thought of which has stressed me out for the last six years. Just live large, and I will quit reading articles online that te...