I do not entertain my children or do things for them that they can do themselves.
When my kids wake up, I ask them what they want for breakfast. If it’s at all humanly possible, they get it themselves. If it’s not , I do as little as I can. That means I pour Cheerios into bowls, add some milk, and leave it with a call of “your cereal’s on the counter!”scrape their bowls and carry them to the sink.
They also help each other. If a task needs to be done, everyone has to pitch in, because if they don’t, they look like a jerk and their brothers treat them as such. If the youngest needs help with his squirt gun, his brother helps him. If my middle son lost his Lego frog, his younger brother helps. They don’t cry for mama, because they know ain’t no way mama’s getting down on her hands and knees to dig for a miniscule Lego frog. Not because she doesn’t love them.
In Target, my 9-year-old will point out that we should get muffins, because they make an easy breakfast, and turkey and bologna and salami, because they can use them to make their own sandwiches. I’m going to teach my oldest to nuke frozen veggies next. Because he can. He deserves that kind of independence. He’s capable. He will enjoy it.
I know what you’re going to say. You’re going to call me lazy. You’re going to say I don’t deserve my kids if I’m not going to take care of them. But here’s the thing:. I’m taking very, very good care of them. I’m teaching them to be self-reliant, to take the world on their own terms, to do for themselves and to work with each other. In a world of helicoptered children, these are the skills they’re going to need.
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