Every little girl aspires to do something that makes them feel special. As parents it is our responsibility to encourage this aspiration and create as many opportunities as we can.
As the father of two beautiful and sweet little girls. I do my best to make sure they feel special every day. This can be challenging at times since they expect yes to be the answer for everything they ask for. obviously I can’t always give them yes to everything they asked for however, I try to exercise reasoning with them as often as possible.
This often involves a deligent process of creating purposeful moments where I can be intentional about a yes. It is pure happiness and enjoyment to watch Nora's beautiful smile light up when she is getting her nails done. I know that she feels special in this moment and I'm so grateful to be apart of creating that opportunity.
Everything about these moments plant seeds that will be ever so fruitfal when they bloom. It is perfectly ok to be intensional about creating expectations for our daughters. I want it to be an expectation that she gets her nails done. There is absolutely nothing wrong with it. This builds character as well as a "can-do" way of thinking.
After all, she is a princess and she deserves to be treated as such. This goes hand in hand with parenting a little girl in an environment where I am promoting a high-level of expectation and dependability. Which also means that I have to hold my self to a higher standard as it can be so easy to cause disappointment or distrust due to such a high-level of expectation.
But this post is not about me, this post is about the immense grattitude I have for an opportunity to be someone special in my daughters' lives. If you are a parent I hope this post inspires you to be intensional about creating moments of happiness in your children's lives.