supervising from the couch: Canon

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Canon

Our kids don't get out of piano practice on Sundays. We're mean parents. Hopefully someday they'll thank us.

2 comments:

Swimmingmom said...: Sounds like a good sunday practice to me! No pun intended.; March 17, 2009 at 3:32 PM
Julie said...: My kids have to practice on Sunday too and I love it - the entire day our house is filled with music because it's really the only day Chris and I have time to play as well, so it's a battle for piano time! Believe me, they will thank you one day :-); March 17, 2009 at 10:04 PM

here's the story:

I was interviewed for a newpaper article about kids and sleep, and quoted as saying something like "when I'm tired, I feel like supervising from the couch." Ever since, it's been our catch phrase for slacker parenting. Ironically, I only had one child at the time and we were practically attached at the hip. Now that I have four older kids, they spend chunks of time playing without even the benefit of me watching from the couch. However, I do try to come running if it sounds like there might be blood. Somehow they have all thrived in spite of me.