It Takes a Village to Raise a Child!

I'm lucky.  My village is my husband and me, our parents, my daughter's dance teachers, my two closest friends, and one co-worker.

I'm thankful for all the help that they give!  Especially getting my kids where they need to be!

My Boss didn't go to the School of Positive Reinforcements

If I were a boss, I would build my employees up at every opportunity.  I would only call them in my office to discuss the positives.  I would trust them to have good reasons for the things that they do.  I would treat them as important human beings.  Any concerns I had would be addressed informally... as problems that we could solve together.  I would be flexible.  What would I get in return?  Employees that would go the extra mile for me because they would know I would do the same for them.

Why don't many bosses embrace these ideas?  Why do so many of them only focus on the negative?

Clean your room?

Yesterday, Katie called and asked me to bring her an outfit when I came to pick her up at dance since she was spending the night at a friends.  I walked into her room, saw a basket overflowing with recently folded clothes and grabbed the jeans on top, a tank, and a tee.  I get to dance, show her what I picked, and watch her wrinkle her nose.  The jeans have cheese on the leg from spilled nachos at a school event.  She looks at me like I have two heads; how could I not have noticed?  I look at her the same way, because who puts a pair of dirty jeans on top of a basket of clean clothes?  My boys' keep their rooms a mess too.  Oh, they all clean them if I tell them too, but if they could just choose, they'd be walking around and over stuff constantly.  I vow to make them clean their rooms today.  Then I wake up this morning early to go grocery shopping, and  I run into a friend who now has grown children.  I ask about them, and she randomly mentions how emotional she gets every time she walks by their "clean" empty rooms.  I guess that was my wake-up call for the day.  I'd rather have my kids and their messy rooms at home, then think about them grown up and gone!