Go with the Flow....Even if it's "wrong"

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This was me today. DS wanted to crack 5 eggs for his lunch which I knew he wouldn't eat. I said how about 3 and if you are still hungry we can crack two more. He wasn't happy with that but the controlling part of me took over and told him if he wanted to crack eggs he could crack three. All the while, this little voice inside me is saying, why not let him crack 5. That little voice needs to get louder

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See the other voice in me would say even louder because thats a total waste and simpily not necessary. Espicaly since I know my DD won't touch the eggs at all neither will DH and I can't eat five eggs no thanks.. I would though maybe plan on making something for the family where she could crack eggs and maybe do some measuring and sifting ect like the lemon cake with stawberry perserves DD going to help me with latter today. It calls for several eggs I guess I'm just stubborn...

I let ds do things....within reason, i couldnt sit back and let 5 eggs get cracked knowing they wouldnt all get used....I'm just to frugal

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Yea thats me I'm willing to let mistakes be made even if I totally know it will ruin the "projects" finial outcome but just useless waste no.

Thanks for the reminder Pat!

I can see myself applying those in way more instances than cracking eggs

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Oh totally... and have ...

Thanks Pat! I need to remind myself to just zip-it more often. Today my 9yo wanted to decorate her favorite jeans with sharpie and fabric paint. I was a bit resistant because she grows so fast and is so hard on her jeans that these are the only ones that fit properly and are without holes. But, oh well, they're her pants! They actually turned out really cute.

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See this I'd be okay with at 9 a child can actually "decorate" and not just scribble and if if turned out "wrong" they would be old enough to understand the jeans can't be fixed and when we latter get you some more it might be better not to do X and Y. (or more liekly it will turn out to just be a fun project) I wouldn't let my 3 year old do this cause she'd just me marking up the jeans and wouldn't understand while I just allowed her property to be ruined. I might (if avaiable ) find an old t shirt of DH's or maybe some cloth napkins even a prefold that she could decorate. or redirrect the art to the easel or paper or someother way.

Today we were eating crabs and my 10 year old niece was eating with us... her dad sat down with us about an hour later after we'd started, and here she'd been doing so well. As SOON as he sat down he started nitpicking at her, "Don't do that. That won't work. You need to do it THIS way." She was trying to tell him her way had been working but he wouldn't listen.

Such a little thing but it really upset me. (More and more their parenting style over there drives me crazy, though it always has to a degree!) It's what I thought of when I read this post though. (Though I agree with not being wasteful, which, btw, she was not!)

This was me about 30 minutes ago. Ds#1 and I had made some ooblek and were having fun at the sink playing with it. We were even talking about an hypothesis (if we left it out overnight, then the water would evaporate but the food coloring and corn starch would stay behind), and were going to do an experiment (ds loves these!). But, I had to go check on dh and see what was happening, so ds started "playing". Pretty soon the whole box of corn starch was mostly in the bowl, and there was a *bunch* of water added - so it was mostly water with corn starch in there. The oobleck was no more. And *I* was having the hardest time with it. I told him that that oobleck was ruined and that the experiment wouldn't work (not in a mean/mad voice, but rather just matter of fact). He was like, I don't care, this is fun. Dh came in the room and I asked him, "Why am *I* having a hard time with this? He's having fun, the corn starch is cheap, and it's all easy to clean. So what if he can't do his experiment in one night ..." Dh helped me realize it was I that wanted to control the situation rather than allow ds to control. I even said, "Aren't we unschooling here? Then why do I need to control what he's doing and learning? Not to mention, he's only *5*!" Ah ... it's humbling how your children can teach you so much.

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Just put the raw eggs in a jar and stick them in the fridge for future use. There is even a technique described in my Fannie Farmer cookbook for freezing them. Something like separating the whites from the yolks. The yolks need a layer of water on top to store in the fridge separately and maybe that is how they are frozen as well. But, not separated, they'll keep in the fridge just fine for a number of days, maybe even a week.