26

How old is old enough to say, "you're still so young!" -Meaning, they're young but you're not. It's something you get told a lot when you're young. But how old are you when you're not young anymore? The answer, my friends, is 26. How do I know? Because I caught myself saying it today. I caught myself telling a student how young they were and it reminded me of when adults said it to me. So that means I'm an adult. I'm an adult who isn't carded anymore and who is almost 27 and who tells young people how young they are. I just thought I would share this revelation with you.  

Pebble in my Nose

Hudson has issues sleeping-a post on that later. A few days ago while he was at school he stuck a pebble up his nose. What does that have to do with sleeping, you say? Well, it scared him and he was upset that I wasn't there to comfort him. Now he is afraid to return to school because, "What if I put a pebble up my nose?" I didn't hear about it at all until tonight after he's been in bed for about twenty minutes and had time to reflect on it. 

"You don't have to put it in your nose," I say. "You won't do it again."

But still, he's laying in bed worried that he might do something traumatizing and I won't be there to fix it. He's 4 and he's doing what I do at night: thinking about what might go wrong tomorrow. 

I don't think it's just my kid. I think we think our kids don't reflect, don't have the ability to be scared of the future. But now I see they can and they do. So try not to minimallize your kid's fears. Recognize the feelings they have about their pebbles as if they were the same as how you feel after a terrible day at work. 

Oh I love my Hudson!