Something My Daughter Taught Me Today- #1

My 6 and 3/4 year old daughter has a way of humbling me. I can't tell you all the times when she tells me things like I have jiggly buns or my breath stinks. Those come so often I just say, "Thanks for letting me know." A week or two ago, she told me she wants to be adopted into another family so that she can "have a life." And she was TOTALLY SERIOUS!

But tonight as we were reading a Christian devotional together as a family, my husband reads aloud that daughters should watch their mothers so they will know how be a good mother. (Despite how this sounds, we are NOT the most conservative family in the world). So, my 6 and 3/4 year old daughter says, "Why do I have to do that? I think I will just read parenting.com."

There are some times when we do the right thing, say the right thing....and we get absolutely no praise, thanks, or encouragement. My daughter taught me that.