Today my 5 y/o and I were about to make a smoothie as an activity that she was looking forward to.I got the stuff together and told her to wait one minute while I got the last things we needed.When I returned 30 seconds later, my 5 y/o was gone and the shattered blender was all over the floor.I went and found my daughter in her bedroom under the covers thinking I would be mad at her. I wasn’t. I first asked her if she was OK and then asked her what happened. She said: “I didn’t know it was made out of glass.”It made perfect sense. The blender doesn’t really look like glass to a 5 y/o. She didn’t mean to break anything. It was an honest mistake. She had been really looking forward to making this smoothie.I never got upset. I realized it wasn’t the right thing to do. It accomplishes nothing in the end. Trying to be a better person than I was yesterday. via /r/Parenting https://ift.tt/3dUH42O
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