Took my three and five year old grocery shopping last weekend. I have been trying to give them more jobs and independence so I (stupidly?) let them each use their own kid sized grocery carts. I quickly realized the store was far more crowded than expected and this was gonna be a sh*t show. And it was! There was crashing of carts, lots of getting in the way of shoppers, fighting about who gets to put the bunny shaped mac in their cart, and just mayhem in general. I did my best to be firm but patient and somehow we made it through the store.On the way to our van, an older woman we had repeatedly slowed down because of the aforementioned mayhem yelled across the parking lot to me, “You’re doing a great job, mom!”I could have cried. All I could spit out was, “Thank you so much! I needed that!” via /r/Parenting https://ift.tt/2BvzXNn
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