Lessons Learned

I like to think of myself as a pretty open-minded person. I don't have to like everything that a person does or agree with everything that they believe in, in order to like that person. I hope I am raising my daughter to feel the same way. I find that keeping an open mind also allows me to learn life lessons. This has been happening quite a bit lately for me. I have realized that sometimes I can be quick to share a dilemma with people and see what their point of view is. Then I find myself replacing my judgement with theirs. Usually it doesn't feel good in the end. Lately I have realized that I need to absorb the facts, sit back and listen to what my gut tells me. I used to be a good judge of character and I used to confidently make decisions. Over the past few years I find that this has not been the case and I want to get back to that. All life lessons, I suppose. Speaking of a life lesson, a few weeks ago I posted about my daughter being naughty in dance class. We missed dance last week because we went to the Royal Winter Fair instead (we both loved it). Last night was our first time back to dance after that last, bad, class. Piper and I have spent quite some time discussing the importance of listening and being respectful in the past few weeks so I felt like I had sort of gotten through to her (keeping in mind she is 3). Lastnight we went into dance, got there a few minutes early and she apologized to Miss Jennifer (dance teacher) for not listening and not behaving. I was quite proud of her because she sounded quite sincere. Her dance lesson went MUCH better. She participated more, listened more and seemed to have loads of fun! I won't say she was perfect. There were moments when she went a little rogue and did her own thing but the improvement was big and hey, Rome was not built in a day right?