My Baby Girl Got A Knot On Her Head ?
“I get knocked down…”
This morning I was able to go on a walk inside the mall with my family. I normally don’t get to do this, because I am too busy making people awesome inside my studio : ).
My wife goes to the mall 3- 5 times a week and walks. This is her way of staying fit and not going insane because of the kids. As I said, I was able to go with her. The plan was I would keep the children entertained.
I won’t lie, I was doing a fantastic job of it too! I was chasing Axel, my oldest, when it happened. Axel was running away from me and not watching where he was going and he trucked his sweet sister, Kenna, she is 2. He’s big for his age and he completely ran her over.
She hit the ground and banged your head off of the tile, she hit the ground so hard you could actually see where the grout divided the tiles on her forehead. As you’d expect, she started screaming, burst into tears, and asked for Mommy…because everyone knows Daddy’s are worthless when one gets hurt.
It immediately turned into a big knot….it looked nasty. She then proceeded to ask for Mommy, NOT DADDY to put her into the stroller.
“I then ask to be put into the stroller…”
In the meanwhile, Axel is trying not to cry and feels bad because he smeared Kenna across the mall floor. I calmed him down and we kept walking.
Later, Kenna got the courage to get out of her stroller and walk around.
Then I got the bright idea, “Hey, let’s go to the farm playground inside the mall.” The kids thought this was a fantastic idea. Now, remember Kenna has a big knot on her head.
“I get up again and I ….”
When we got to the play place slash farm playground thing. They took off their shoes and immediately started playing and running around like crazy. They were having a great time, there were other kids there and things couldn’t have been going better.
Then it was the dreaded time to go…every parent just gasped a little bit, because they know what this means…Whining and crying time.
Axel, not wanting to disappoint whined and complained.
But I couldn’t see Kenna, that is when I heard her giggling and laughing. I looked inside this Farm house thing just in time to see her jump off the top of the slide, hit the wall, and fall and crash into the floor.
“JUMP off the slide!”
I was like, “Are you kidding me! Your mother is going to kill me.” Lucky, for me, she laughed and got right back up.
I then watched her do it again. She climbed up the stairs, to the top of the slide, turned, faced the wall and jumped. Except this time, she caught the top the wall with their hands and hung there, giggling.
She then let go and fell to the ground giggling and super proud of herself.
So what did I do as father of the year? I let her do it several more times. I thought the whole thing was pretty cool, so I took a video of her doing it. I posted it the other day, but I’ll try to post it again so you can check it out. See video below!
And You? How do you respond to a bad day when you get smeared across the floor?
Yes, I’m bragging on my daughter! But how cool is that?
So often in life we get knocked down, we make poor decisions, or bad things out of our control just happen to us. In this case, it wasn’t her fault it was my poor decision of chasing Axel in a mall and he running over her. But things happen to us and they’re going to keep happening to us. The question is, how are we going to respond to them?
There’s some things in our life that we can’t control they just happen. Fitness, exercise, and choosing to eat quality food, for the most part is something we can control.
But we choose to neglect them. Worse, when we do fall down and we feel tons of guilt and shame. We let it consume us and then punish ourselves with poor self talk : (.
On a side note, food is amoral. Cake isn’t bad food, steak isn’t bad food, chicken breast isn’t bad food either. You know why? Food is amoral. So why will you let it dictate your feelings and your moods?
Instead, when we slip up when we fall down and get a big knot on our head, like Kenna. We just need to brush ourselves off, get up, and learn from our mistakes and try again.
In this case, trying again looks like jumping from the top of the ladder an trying to hang from a wall. This isn’t for everyone and I don’t recommend this for everyone, however if that’s what gets you up and out of your chair…do it!
Now go be awesome!
KELLEN LAKE – I did not win father of the year award…but my daughter is an amazing 2 year old…proud dad.
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