Yes Day!

Every year during Spring Break we celebrate "Yes" Day. This is the day that I am required to say "yes" to everything my kids ask for. Now, when we started this day we had some discussion and the kids helped to come up with the criteria for acceptable "yes" requests. The criteria that they came up with was really very usable, they couldn't ask for things that involved spending money, it had to be a reasonable request and it had to be doable within the day. Having younger children, the requests were usually focused around things like certain foods they liked or staying up later. This year was another successful "yes"day and this year it included making dinner for family members and a food fight.

What impresses me about my kids is that they developed criteria for the events including the food fight. We had to use food that wasn't usable any more (so that we weren't being wasteful), we had to do it where we wouldn't make a mess(outside), and we had to clean it up so that we weren't littering. My boys decided that stale buns from our grocery store would be ideal. They would stand up to throwing repeatedly, wouldn't cost much money and be easy to clean up.

Taking the time to let my boys enjoy a "yes" day is a great way to not only spend the day being the fun mom, but I learned that my boys are becoming great critical thinkers .