Your challenge…
if you choose to accept it…
Be the babysitter!
I LOVE encouraging parents to schedule minutes, hours, evenings or weekends where you pretend you’re the babysitter (or fun aunt/uncle/friend) instead of being the parent.
It’s a time to eat pizza on a blanket on the floor, make a pillow fort, not care about the dishes in the sink or the laundry that needs to be folded, let the bedtime be a little more wiggly and do the things you think you shouldn’t do because you’re “the parent.”
It’s about letting go of your parental responsibilities and just having fun! You can even pay yourself at the end of the night:)
Give it some thought, find a way to do it that feels comfortable and boundaried to you, experiment with the concept and see what unfolds.
Then share your experience/experiment below!
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Published on June 07, 2013 10:15