Positive

I do my best to see the positive. Then I spin the difficult things in a positive way for my children.

Find the silver lining. Out for a walk and step in a turd? Let's pick a flower and smell that instead. Something bothering you so much you want to cry? Let's identify the problem and think up the craziest solution we can find. Did your shoe fall off? Sure, you could walk on one foot - or you could try walking on your hands!

I often mix up words. It makes some people confused, but it just makes my kids giggle. I'll say something like, "Can you please put your shoes on your head already, we need to go!"  And what could have been a tense moment transforms into a fit of laughter. Or the other day when I said we needed to eat dinner, when I was truly thinking of breakfast. Sometimes I do this kind of a simple word mixup on purpose, to snap a child out of a potential meltdown, or to see if they follow what I say, but most of the time it is an honest mistake - a simple misfiring of those neurons. I embrace those goofy moments.

Do you ever do something goofy yourself, to keep people's spirits up?