Home is a Place allows Mistake.

Is your home a place that allows mistake? Is your home a shelter for children's fragility? Children can be clumsy and messy in their growing process. E.g. children often spill their drinks, mess up while eating their food. The scientist kids tend to take apart their toys and study about them. The persistent (stubborn) kids will insist in their own choice which leads to common mistakes like wear the wrong clothes for the weather, match their clothes awkwardly, refuse to put on the shoes for outing etc. But, can moms accept these and handle them well?


As parents, we all love our precious children. Many parents do define the love as protect your children from all harms and rescue them from all mistakes by all means. Let me ask, how long are you going to be with your child? What will happen to your child the day s/he leaves you for high school? Love and Logic parents choose to run their home like the real world.  Acknowledge that life is paved with mistakes. Every mistake is a learning opportunity. Allow affordable mistakes while our children are still little because the price tag is low relatively.

Examples of some affordable mistakes, within safety limit are:

• breaking a toy
• refuse to take a meal
• forget to pick up toy
• stay up late at night

Our children are imperfect human like us. One mom complaint: "My little boy is threatening me when he returns from school. He will hit me until I have to lock myself in my bathroom. He will continue kicking the bathroom door while I try to protect myself inside. " The teachers said: "oh, your boy is just angelic in the school. He helps teachers and he is playing nice with his peers."

Why? And how could this happen? There are other similar examples in other families. Children are normal human who have emotion and they are going through up and down emotionally and physically. We cannot expect our little human to be perfect at all time. Let home be a shelter for their vulnerable emotion and physical, also a place to regain control and get up from a fall.

Many children who learned 'enough' from mistakes in their young age are wise to decide and walk in the right path when they grow up. Sing the 'Uh-oh Song' if your child continue to misbehave.