BjarniBjarniBjarni 🙊 🇮🇸 🍏My older daughter turned 9 recently!
After some scheduling snafus we threw a little party. Partner and I baked a cake.
Picky kid liked the cake, was happy.
We were happy. Yay!
Kiddo is growing up!
Social dynamics at school are becoming more complicated every day.
This girl is enemies with that girl, this other girl is moody, apparently all the girls are excited/terrified that that boy might take them into the bathroom and propose marriage... that boy also can apparently track all the girls' cell phones. Very scary!!!
I try to do some damage control, counterbalance some of the nonsense her peers feed her little brain...
Sometimes it feels like a losing battle.
But sometimes, there are also signs that we're doing OK.
I keep reminding my 9yo that kids make mistakes and get things wrong, that she needs to think for herself. Encourage her to be kind and keep an open heart.
She said friend A had given friend B an ultimatum, that if B didn't stop being moody, A wouldn't play with her. My kid thought that was unfair, she thought B was just stressed planning her halloween party.
Good kid!
A is the source of a lot of nonsense, glad kiddo is pushing back.
The silver lining in all this, is my kid is wiling to tell me all these things, so we do get an opportunity to chat about it.
I've been investing in that for a while and will continue to do so. I thank her for talking to me and remind her that I will never be mad when she tells me things, no matter what.
It's only going to get more and more important. #dadtoot