Let kids be scientist

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)