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"I've been thinking Hobbes --"
"On a weekend?"
"Well, it wasn't on purpose..."
Calvin & Hobbes
The thing that I don’t like about being a Mom is all the driving. Yes, I understand that one day I’ll miss all my kids’ comings and goings, but I’m not a car person - I’m not great with all the moments of monotony. My kids love listening to the banal music on the pop music stations and although I can sing the words to most of the songs, I’m not proud of it. My solution: I’ve recently started listening to audio books, Spanish lesson tapes, and recordings of conversations such as those with Jacqueline Kennedy a few months after her husband was killed. All of these CDs I’ve borrowed from my local library (except for the Spanish course which I wanted to keep). Sure, my children aren’t crazy about my new adaptation to make the car environment more bearable for me, but we do balance it with top ten tunes.
I know that my daughter, although she rolls her eyes, benefits from hearing the breathy voice of Jackie O and her views on what it meant to be a woman in the fifties and early sixties. Kids think in present-time and while this is a great guru move, it’s also great to understand that how things are at this moment in history is not always how things were.
I hope that the tide of CDs will be an example to my kids to stay engaged and always learning. These thinking and driving fests help all of us expand our frames of reference while making the driving portion more enjoyable for me.
Can you adjust areas in your life that are an irritation and make them more enjoyable? Can you apply creative thinking to come up with solutions to an irritation in your life?
"I've been thinking Hobbes --"
"On a weekend?"
"Well, it wasn't on purpose..."
Calvin & Hobbes
The thing that I don’t like about being a Mom is all the driving. Yes, I understand that one day I’ll miss all my kids’ comings and goings, but I’m not a car person - I’m not great with all the moments of monotony. My kids love listening to the banal music on the pop music stations and although I can sing the words to most of the songs, I’m not proud of it. My solution: I’ve recently started listening to audio books, Spanish lesson tapes, and recordings of conversations such as those with Jacqueline Kennedy a few months after her husband was killed. All of these CDs I’ve borrowed from my local library (except for the Spanish course which I wanted to keep). Sure, my children aren’t crazy about my new adaptation to make the car environment more bearable for me, but we do balance it with top ten tunes.
I know that my daughter, although she rolls her eyes, benefits from hearing the breathy voice of Jackie O and her views on what it meant to be a woman in the fifties and early sixties. Kids think in present-time and while this is a great guru move, it’s also great to understand that how things are at this moment in history is not always how things were.
I hope that the tide of CDs will be an example to my kids to stay engaged and always learning. These thinking and driving fests help all of us expand our frames of reference while making the driving portion more enjoyable for me.
Can you adjust areas in your life that are an irritation and make them more enjoyable? Can you apply creative thinking to come up with solutions to an irritation in your life?
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