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Sweat
trickled down the middle of my back as the sun accomplished its job of
providing warmth, extreme warmth. The metal chair I plopped down on caused me
to immediately pop up like a piece of toast from a toaster. To say it was hot
outside would be an understatement. Just as I settled into the enjoyment of the
event, my cell phone chimed.
“Ma, have
you seen that form I need to send to the college?”
This was the
beginning of the mystery of the missing money. Well…it wasn’t actually missing
money, but the form that needed to be completed in order to potentially receive
money to help with college.
“Did you
check the file drawer?”
“Yes.”
“Look on top
of the file cabinet, you might need to move a few papers around.”
“Okay.”
I arrived
home and asked my son whether he found the missing form. He had not. I asked if
he had checked on top of the file cabinet. “Yes.”
I marched up
the flight of stairs, into our “study room” and straight to the file cabinet.
After shuffling a couple of papers, there it was in plain sight, the folder I
told my son to look for. I beckoned for my son to come hither.
My son
entered the room and I nodded my head toward the file cabinet. He went over to
the file cabinet, moved two pieces of paper and uncovered the folder I told him
to look for.
“Oh, I didn’t
look for a folder. I was looking for a sheet of paper.”
The mystery
of the missing money/form was solved.
“There’s a
lesson in this somewhere,” I told my son.
“Yeah, I
should have actually looked where you told me to look for the form.”
“BINGO.”
Sometimes
situations appear to be a mystery in the eyes of our children. However, with
our guidance, love, and encouragement, they learn to solve their own mysteries
real and imagined.
Have you solved
any parenting mysteries lately?
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