Well it's been a while since my blog has gotten any love. I will have to blame it on my new marketing job at home. So it all started with the realization that my oldest daughter unfortunately got a good chunk of my not so exciting traits. One of those is a tendency towards negativity. I am a fairly happy person, but it doesn't take much to send me down the road to glass emptiness. Gabby however, not only sees the glass as empty, but that bad boy has a whole in the bottom and a crack on the side. Hence my new project....
We had just finished dinner one Wednesday night, which happens to be solo Mom night, and were brushing teeth and she gave me one Debbie Downer comment too many. I looked at her and said very clearly, "Every time I say something that you want to complain about, I want you to say 'YEAH' and tell me one thing you like about what I said, then you can throw in your complaint". Now that's pretty tricky for a kid I realize, but I also know my child. She is smarter than the average duck and I thought she could handle it. And let me tell you she has (for the most part) embraced the Yeah. Sometimes the Yeah doesn't have quite as much as enthusiasm as some days, but she's doing it.
Now it's somewhat turned into a joke because my husband will walk in and ask "how's the Yeah level today". Some would say we are treating the Yeah like it is its own entity. But gosh darn, if it helps the happiness level in the house than so be it.
I won't call it a total success by any stretch. As I watched Gab slowly melt into a spiral of mess, I asked her where the Yeah was and her response was "I don't feel the Yeah right now Mom". And yes there were daggers coming out of her eyes.
So not 100 percent successful, but if it helps keep the peace and help us all remember to find the good, then I say let's Yeah it up! Show me the Yeah! The Yeah is in house. If you can't Yeah get out of my way. Yeah you get the point...
Monday, March 22, 2010
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