how parenting is like limbo-ing on roller skates

​When I was a kid,
I loved to play limbo.
My sister could limbo
on roller skates.

Parenting is like that some days.
Limbo-ing on roller skates.
Sometimes you gotta lower the bar
and roll on through.

A Positive PlayTime mom
reminded me of 
The power of lowering
your expectations.

She said it was often easier
when she didn't necessarily
expect her children
to behave, listen, or cooperate.

Lowering your expectations
can be a really smart
brain-wise tool.
While Positive Intent
is essential in parenting,
attachment to the way
we think things should be,
usually sets us back.
And results in our children's
tantrums, tears, or power struggles.

So ease up, my friends.
Know you & your children 
are good people.
But stress way less
about the way you think
they should be acting
or life should be going.

My #1 way to
lower your expectations...

Think of what you need to do.
Your to-do-list.
And with wild abandon
throw everything off that list
that is not essential.
Or even take 1,2,or 3 things of your list.
Freedom.

How to judge what is essential?
Think basic needs.
Everything that's not related 
to basic needs, 
cross it off,
and let it go.

Lower your expectations,
just like lowering
that limbo bar.
Hop on your roller skates,
and glide on by.
Lowering your expectations is power.

Have a wonderful week,
Megan

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