I was cooking dinner yesterday when my 5 year old pulled up
a step stool next to me and asked “ mom can I do that” and I said of course, I
gave him a daikon radish to peel with the vegetable peeler. I know, I’m crazy
but hey If he wants to do it, let him do it. If he messes up then all well, its
just food. He peeled it a few times before he got bored and started pulling
things out the kitchen drawer and ask me “ Mom can I play with water” and I
thought…. “Sure”
He
pulled out a measuring teaspoon, medicine measuring caps, a small cup and a Tupperware
container and helped himself to some water from the fridge. He’s mixing and
making a mess so I grab a kitchen towel and tell him to keep his stuff on the towel
so he doesn’t accidently slip and fall from it getting wet.
He then
ask me “ Mom, Can I get some food coloring” and I think, “ hmm… that sounds
messy but what ever, sure. “ So he starts to add food coloring to his watery concoction
and hes just having the time of his life, mixing, measuring, adding things too
and fro.
My
husband comes out to the kitchen and he goes “ Your making a mess” and his face
looks like this ( -_- ) my husband is a
clean freak and doesn’t like mess. I just say to him “ Leave him alone, he’s
being a scientist” LOL.
For the next hour or so, he just stood there on his little
step stool, in my kitchen , on my counter, mixing water and food coloring. He
wasn’t on the tv, he didn’t ask for his tablet or complain he was bored. He was
simply “being a scientist”
I didn’t take a photo because this was something I thought
was a Kodak moment, I’m sure their will be more moments in the future for me to snap a photo to
remember it by, but for today, I wanted to just enjoy my son being a scientist.
The point of my blog today, for all my busy momma’s is this “
Let kids be kids, let them be scientist, when they want to do something, let
them. Encourage them and who cares if it’s a mess, let them make a mess. Slow
down and enjoy your kids being kids. I don’t care if the house gets dirty, I’ll
clean it later. What I loved most about
this experience was I told my son “ Your being a scientist! Good job” and he
just flashes me his million dollar smile.
At the end of the day, the sink was full of dishes, some of
them covered in food coloring and my husband just grunts “ what a mess, uh!”
and I just said to him “ HE WAS BEING A SCIENTIST” LOL.
That is all.
Happy holidays from the Saehaos! (PS that random teenager in our family photos is my husbands youngest sister, we only have 2 kids lol)
