As I was unpacking the supermarket shopping, and stared at my ‘essential’ potatoes, I reflected on something my mother in law reminds me of when I get in a reflective pickle regarding a parenting decision or situation we (me & my children) had become consumed within, She says…
“You just have to be ‘good enough'”
I feel as though we make what feels like thousands of parenting decisions, conversations, actions and reactions each day, some more conscious than others and some will be definitely more effective, have greater impact and are more decisive than others. But the bottom line is that it is “good enough”.
So back to those potatoes!
Because parenting can be like the differing supermarket product ranges….sometimes my parenting is essential or basic, the bottom line stuff, the ‘no frills’, basic form and sometimes it enters into the Speciality, No. 1, Taste the Difference, luxury end of the range, this is when I am full of the goodness of life, my resources are recharged and I have capacity to give this level of me and my parenting, to my children. This varied range is all from the same shop or parent!
I believe my children need to experience the whole product range, because I too am a human but I endeavor to at least be ‘good enough’ at my parenting. In light of a recent occasion, it was okay that one year Halloween looked like a paper bunting, left over from last year, put up at the window a few days before and another year Halloween may look like hosting a party for friends….
Guess which my children got this year….
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