Our Imagination

Sometimes when kids are tired & sad, they’re just inconsolable. Rational and logical reasoning doesn’t help them to calm down in order to talk through the situation. So I turn to the irrational and crazy depths of my mind to distract them from their sadness/pain/exhaustion. 🤪

 Today Charlie had a meltdown after lunch. The usual holding him and helping him take deep breaths didn’t cut it. He was too worked up. So I told him when all the kids grow up and move out I’ll need to get a pet to keep me company. I said it’ll be a hippo but I don’t know what color to get. He suggested purple. Then we discussed it some more. Charlie named it Hippopotamus Curtain. Her friend visits who’s a blue hippo he named Shower. Shower and Curtain. Pah ha ha!

We also discussed getting a Rainbow giraffe named Rainbow and Charlie wants a Green Baby alligator the size of Charlie’s pinky named Crunch. 

Once we had all that figured out, we were able to calmly discuss the cause for his tears and how to handle it better in the future. 

 Charlie would now like to select emojis to add to this post:

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