Secrets of Children — Days Before Special Events In Your Life
A few months backs — before the summer — my daughters were so excited. They had a secret. The secret was that they had made gifts for me.
It was mothers day last year. At school they made gifts and at home, they made my drawings. When the day isn’t there yet, they are hiding their (handmade) presents and they make me a lot of drawings. My daughters have a lot of fun during these times.
They’re having fun all the time, they’re telling me they’re having a secret for me and that I may not know it. Sometimes it takes one or two weeks before I see what presents and drawings they made me. I can’t wait that long, my love. It challenges me too not to ask them what they made, or even not to peek where they hide it. I’m just a curious person. I want to know everything, haha.
My daughters are more secretive when it’s my birthday or the birthday of one of their siblings. When they have something in their mind they go for it. They cozy up with each other to make it happen. Making plans to surprise me or their sibling.
I love to see their faces when they’re busy being secretive about the presents they made and bought. There was one moment when they gave me fake presents and there was nothing in the boxes other than wrapped (news)papers. It was their joke. They found it funny to joke around with me. Haha… Then, I’m laughing out loud, these are precious moments of parenting. Then the real presents are coming. My heart melts when they do this. Just the love for my daughters. I love it when they’re making plans together to surprise me.
Only, my daughters are doing too busy and too loud a lot of days before these days. Not only birthdays, mother days, but also weeks before we are going on holiday they’re doing that busy and loud. Sometimes it is too much. I think every child is like that.
When they’re very busy with their behavior, you are able to do something about it. Don’t be stressed about it yourself. That is the first thing overall.
You should give your children some structure, give them things to do to distract them and when it’s going the “wrong” way (I mean, hurting someone or screaming) you can let choose your child stickers when they behaved well.
Agnes Laurens is a writer. She writes for the local newspaper. Agnes lives in Bunnik, The Netherlands, with her husband and three daughters. Writing is — aside from playing the violin — one of her passions since childhood. She is on Twitter and Instagram.
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