Boredom
I feel I have accomplished something great this holiday when my daughter is bored. I am sure you are familiar with the, "I'm bored. I have nothing to do." In our house, it has shown up as an insistence on play dates. She has her play date arranged-which friend is coming over, what toys both of them will play with, what scenes they will act out with their ponies. That's all before she asks us to have a friend over, or we have a play date arranged. Instead, and partly due to the fact that she's temporarily sick, and the basement was torn up for re-arranging, and the Christmas decorations were in the middle ground between packed and unpacked, she's been forced to play with us, or with Raven, or by herself, or out in the yard. Not to count the attention she received from Grandparents and family all last week up to Boxing Day. We have still taken her to a few activities-play places, parks, the zoo, but really I've been wanting that n...