Hindsight REWIND

Reminisce and Reflect with me.  

A quick READ.

Playing in the park in nineteen-ninety-something. 101 Dalmations, with scary haired Cruella De Vil, was a family favorite.  We had our favorite spots for summertime play.  I had just unveiled my own frightening retro 80’s curly hair perm.  Climbing on monkey bars and jungle gyms, building castles in the sand, sliding down long, hot, slippery slides and riding the old rocking horses.  Just having fun together.

Rejuvenation of the human spirit, heart, mind and body being part of this beautiful summer day feeling good and watching my little ones having so much fun playing.  Then we had a picnic.

The girls revealed with kid’s brutal honesty, telling me many times and in many ways, that they hated my curly hair.  At bedtime that night they wanted to know if my hair would be gone by morning!  As perms go NO….. I’m afraid they had to get use to the new curly me.

Hindsight Reflection #1   Children learn so much through play.  Stand back and let them do what comes naturally.  Safety standards have since taken many of those playground favorites away even though countless kids successfully had fun on them! Be safe but let them imagine and explore.

Hindsight Reflection #2  Working parents will always cherish those ordinary everyday moments they spend with their children and wish that they had many more.  

Hindsight Reflection #3  Honesty is always the best policy.  Kids tell it like it is.  Listen to them.  They haven’t learned to filter yet.  That curly hair was never a good look on me!

Thank you for joining me.

Karen