Enjoying the moment
When you thought you manage to learn to “enjoy the moment” with your family, your kids send you a harsh reminder that you failed: “What are we doing after?”. This is the question our son keeps asking all the time. Even when he is doing something he enjoys, the question keeps popping up, what are we doing afterwards.
Watching my wife and I talk, I realized that as parents we tend to schedule everything in advance. Juggling with naps and meals, we try to have some kind of schedule to know when to prepare the bags, the car, when to start the nap, what to do if the weather changes or not. This constant need for planification, our kids might feel it too and reproduce it, wanting to know what we do next instead of enjoying now.
I also realized our son, especially in holidays, does not realize he gets to choose what we do. Instead of saying he wants to got to the pool or play football, he asks what comes next.
Should we share our “parent life” with our kids, including all the planning happening, or should we protect them from it?
